What is it about?
By using behavioural economics situations and games we are able to show that a random sample of inmates attending GRIP re-hab program significantly change their social preferences (in particular: altruism and trust) with respect to a control group of fellow inmates
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Why is it important?
because we are adding evidence to the theory of enculturated agents
Perspectives
1) It is a longitudinal analysis (performed through a Diff in Diff) thus we can directly test the stability and/plasticity of social preferences 2) Our experiment is based on "experience.and exposure" to a year-long treatment instead of "priming and framing" conditions during the experiment 3) The population analysed is "non-standard being composed by inmates in 2 Californian prisons instead of University students.
Prof. Dr. Mario A. Maggioni
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano
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This page is a summary of: Trust behind bars: Measuring change in inmates’ prosocial preferences, Journal of Economic Psychology, February 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2017.12.003.
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