Deliberation favours social efficiency by making people disregard their relative shares: evidence from USA and India.

ABSTRACT: Groups make decisions on both the production and the distribution of resources. These decisions typically involve a tension between increasing the total level of group resources (i.e. social efficiency) and distributing these resources among group members (i.e. individuals' relative shares). This is the case because the redistribution process may destroy part of the resources, thus resulting in socially inefficient allocations. Here we apply a dual-process approach to understand the cognitive underpinnings of this fundamental tension. We conducted a set of experiments to examine the extent to which different allocation decisions respond to intuition or deliberation. In a newly developed approach, we assess intuition and deliberation at both the trait level (using the Cognitive Reflection T

SUBMITTER: Capraro V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5367314 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature