Legal Research

Is It Safer to Assume Selfishness?

By RGault

Offering monetary incentives for cooperative or altruism behavior can be counterproductive, according to a new article, here, that reviews multiple studies.  In one example, women who were paid to donate blood did so less often that those who donated as a act of charity.   Incentives must be carefully designed to appeal to both moral and material interests.

Robin Gault

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).