TY - T1 - Experimentally Induced Empathy Has No Impact on Generosity in a Monetarily Incentivized Dictator Game SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/300255 T3 - A1 - Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Walkowitz, Gari A2 - PB - Y1 - 2019 LA - eng AB - In a monetarily incentivized Dictator Game, we expected Dictators' empathy toward the Recipients to cause more pro-social allocations. Empathy was experimentally induced via a commonly used perspective taking task. Dictators (N = 474) were instructed to split an endowment of 10(sic) between themselves and an unknown Recipient. They could split the money 8/2 (8(sic) for Dictator, 2(sic) for Recipient) or 5/5 (5(sic) each). Although the empathy manipulation successfully increased Dictators' feelin... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - empathy; dictator game; generosity; altruism; experimental economics; ALTRUISM; FAIRNESS; BEHAVIOR; PERSONALITY; COMPASSION; INCREASES; RATHER; 5144 Social psychology; 515 Psychology N1 - PP - ER -