Why Awe Makes People More Generous: Utility Theory Can Explain Recent Experiments

Authors

Joe Lorkowski, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

6-2015

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-15-48

To appear in Journal of Uncertain Systems, 2016, Vol. 10.

Abstract

Recent psychological experiments show that the feeling of awe increases people's generosity. In this paper, we show that a usual utility-based approach to decision making explains this increase.