Do people have well-defined social preferences waiting to be applied when making
decisions? Or do they have to construct social decisions on the spot? If the latter, how are …

Research has demonstrated that delays in realizing pro‐social decisions significantly
influence pro‐social choices. However, the impact of time delay may vary by context. A key …

Social decision making involves balancing conflicts between selfishness and pro-sociality.
The cognitive processes underlying such decisions are not well understood, with some …

Time pressure is a powerful experimental manipulation frequently used to arbitrate between
competing dual-process models of prosocial decision-making, which typically assume that …

There is ample evidence that people differ considerably in their preferences. We identify
individual heterogeneity in type and strength of social preferences in a series of binary three …

Behavioral and neuroscientific studies explore two pathways through which internalized
social norms promote prosocial behavior. One pathway involves internal control of impulsive …

The details of a decision context—including the set of alternatives being offered—can
considerably influence the judgments and choices that people make. For instance, people's …

Economists have traditionally studied aggregate behavior as the outcome of individual
decisions made interactively, while sociologists have focused on the role of social influences …

Evidence from response time studies and time pressure experiments has led several
authors to conclude that “fairness is intuitive”. In light of conflicting findings, we provide …

There is ample evidence that people differ considerably in the strength of their social
preferences. We identify individual heterogeneity in social motives and selfishness in a …