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The Reluctant Altruist

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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Johanna M Lukate .

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

When faced with others free-riding traditional accounts in the literature indicate that people either defect and free-ride themselves or punish free-riders in order to encourage cooperation. Punishment is believed associated with negative emotions in particular anger directed at free-riders. However, we identified a preference in blood donors (a behaviour marked by high degree of free-riding) which we termed ‘reluctant altruism’. Reluctant altruists, do not trust that other will help and so help when others free-ride. In this talk I will detail the development of a theory of reluctant altruism, and the development of a psychometric assessment of reluctant altruism with three facets (helping due to: (1) lack of trust, (2) negative emotions – including anger – at free-riders and (3) feeling that social norms reflect an uncaring society. I will detail how this preference is a mixture of selfish (e.g., warm-glow) and other inspiring motives and how it relates to work on condition cooperation, crowding out and blood donation and blood donor recruitment.

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