Publications by authors named "Peter Hans Matthews"
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- The study examines how having excuses for self-serving actions affects favoritism toward one's group during a political context.
- When participants knew the distribution outcomes could benefit them but were unaware of their partner's payoff, they tended to act selfishly towards both in-group and out-group members.
- The presence of moral wiggle room led to a noticeable drop in group favoritism, particularly among those interacting with fellow partisans.
This paper calculates the distribution of an adjusted measure of income that deducts damages due to exposure to air pollution from reported market income in the United States from 2011 to 2014. The Gini coefficient for this measure of adjusted income is 0.682 in 2011, as compared to 0.
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