Personal Values Associated with Prosocial Decisions

Discounting, Values, and Decisions∗

How do discount rates affect agents’ decisions and valuations? This paper provides a common methodology and a systematic analysis of this question, considering stochastic and managed cash-flows, stochastic discount rates, time inconsistency, and including arbitrary learning and payoff or utility processes. We show that some of these features can lead to counter-intuitive answers (e.g., “a more ...

Personal Informatics for Reflection on Personal Values

In this paper we advocate the use of personal informatics systems for self-reflection on personal values. We describe the role values play as guiding principles in people’s lives. We then describe ValueSensitive Design, an approach to the design of technology that aims to account for values throughout the design process. We subsequently argue that personal informatics, in its focus on self-refl...

Unstable Values in Lifesaving Decisions

IntroductIon Classical economic approaches to the study of preferences and risky choices assume that human preferences are stable and rational. However, subsequent empirical research has demonstrated that preferences are often constructed and that choices are influenced by a variety of factors that frequently deviate from normative decision-making models. While many of these studies have confir...

Religiosity and prosocial behaviours in adolescence: the mediating role of prosocial values

Analysis of the Relationship between Personal Values and Immoral Behavior with Commitment to Organizational Change

Background: Growth and development in each organization, accomplished with institutionalizing a culture of organizational change and acceptance this by staff. So, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the role of personal values and ethical behavior with a commitment to organizational change. Method: The study method was descriptive- correlation. The statistical...