When happy people make society unhappy: How incidental emotions affect compliance behavior
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Keywords
compliance behavior; emotions; cheating; tax evasion; norms; experimental economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2019-07-29 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HAP-2019-07-29 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HPE-2019-07-29 (History & Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-NEU-2019-07-29 (Neuroeconomics)
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