A Replication Study on Prosocial Choice

The scientific community, or at least some fields, has faced a replicability crisis over the past decade. This paper presents a successful replication study on prosocial behaviour, where individuals benefit others at a cost to themselves. The morality preference hypothesis, which suggests that people obtain utility from doing what they believe is morally right, is supported by the experimental work from Tappin and Capraro. In this work, we replicate their findings in an unpaid setting and provide additional support for previous experimental results regarding the role of economic motivation in experiments. Furthermore, we find evidence to suggest that hyper-altruistic behaviour diminishes as the stakes increase.