Social and environmental preferences : measuring how people make tradeoffs among themselves, others, and collective goods

Fleiß, Jürgen; Ackermann, Kurt Alexander; Fleiß, Eva; Murphy, Ryan O.; Posch, Alfred

doi:10.1007/s10100-019-00619-y

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18215

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Social and environmental preferences : measuring how people make tradeoffs among themselves, others, and collective goods
Authors:	Fleiß, Jürgen Ackermann, Kurt Alexander Fleiß, Eva Murphy, Ryan O. Posch, Alfred
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1007/s10100-019-00619-y 10.21256/zhaw-18215
Published in:	Central European Journal of Operations Research
Issue Date:	2019
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
ISSN:	1435-246X 1613-9178
Language:	English
Subjects:	Cooperation; Preference measurement; Proenvironmental preference; Social value orientation (SVO)
Subject (DDC):	658.8: Marketing management
Abstract:	Social preferences like social value orientation are considered a promising solution to social dilemmas, such as mitigating anthropogenic climate change. However, evidence on the relationship between social preferences and environmental concerns is mixed, possibly because these constructs have commonly been measured by distinct methods that do not facilitate direct comparisons. We address this gap by introducing an incentivized preference-based measurement approach, extending a subject’s concerns for the well-being of others to a subject’s willingness to support environmental and humanitarian endeavors, based on a simple social preferences utility function. In this measurement approach, subjects make resource allocation choices with real consequences and the design ensures comparability of different revealed preferences (i.e., people’s willingness to make tradeoffs between themselves and others via donations to NGOs supporting different environmental and social causes).We then use this measurement method in an exploratory fashion to consistently assess preferences for environmental and humanitarian concerns in a laboratory experiment. We find that social and environmental value orientations are robustly interrelated, and further that people are generally more willing to pay to benefit people in need, compared to abstract environmental causes. We conclude that interventions to nudge people towards proenvironmental behavior will have a greater impact if human suffering resulting from global climate change is made more salient.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/18215
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Marketing Management (IMM)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

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Fleiß, J., Ackermann, K. A., Fleiß, E., Murphy, R. O., & Posch, A. (2019). Social and environmental preferences : measuring how people make tradeoffs among themselves, others, and collective goods. Central European Journal of Operations Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-019-00619-y

Fleiß, J. et al. (2019) ‘Social and environmental preferences : measuring how people make tradeoffs among themselves, others, and collective goods’, Central European Journal of Operations Research [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-019-00619-y.

J. Fleiß, K. A. Ackermann, E. Fleiß, R. O. Murphy, and A. Posch, “Social and environmental preferences : measuring how people make tradeoffs among themselves, others, and collective goods,” Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2019, doi: 10.1007/s10100-019-00619-y.

FLEISS, Jürgen, Kurt Alexander ACKERMANN, Eva FLEISS, Ryan O. MURPHY und Alfred POSCH, 2019. Social and environmental preferences : measuring how people make tradeoffs among themselves, others, and collective goods. Central European Journal of Operations Research. 2019. DOI 10.1007/s10100-019-00619-y

Fleiß, Jürgen, Kurt Alexander Ackermann, Eva Fleiß, Ryan O. Murphy, and Alfred Posch. 2019. “Social and Environmental Preferences : Measuring How People Make Tradeoffs among Themselves, Others, and Collective Goods.” Central European Journal of Operations Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-019-00619-y.

Fleiß, Jürgen, et al. “Social and Environmental Preferences : Measuring How People Make Tradeoffs among Themselves, Others, and Collective Goods.” Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-019-00619-y.