ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Delegating decisions: An overlooked way of pursuing immoral goals
Modern societies are tormented by warfare, crime, corruption, and environmental exploitation. If many people have prosocial goals and desire to see themselves and to be seen by others as moral, how do immoral acts like these continue to happen? Economic research suggests a critical role of delegation: Decision-makers can delegate unethical, yet profitable decisions to delegates, which increases resource inequality, and at the same time averts punishment of delegators. Yet, such indirect immorality, as an inherently elusive, inconspicuous phenomenon, is not only overlooked by observers, but also by psychological research. Who delegates immoral behaviors, when, and why? What determines…
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