Understanding drivers’ altruistic driving decisions: A theoretically guided investigation

Nandavar, Sonali; Lewis, Ioni; White, Katherine M.

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2018.12.017

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“…And Andreoni and Miller (2002) further confirmed the rationality of altruism, which can be understand sufficiently by an economic model. Nowadays, most researches concerning altruistic preferences have focused on the many fields, such as supply chain (Ge & Hu, 2012), behavioural decision-making (Nandavar et al, 2019) and the carbon market (Salas & Roe, 2012) etc. For instance, Ge and Hu (2012) interpreted firms' cooperative incentive as their altruism, and pointed out that a manufacturer with altruistic liability would benefit both the supply chain and the retailers.…”

Section: Altruistic Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, a competitive -cooperative strategy with altruism proposed indicates that only offline retailers have entirely altruistic behaviour . In the respect of guiding behaviour in transportation, such altruistic behaviours may help to create a more positive and harmonious driving context to improve road safety ultimately (Nandavar et al, 2019). Differently, more studies have focused on altruism of parties with the principal- 2012designed relational contracts between a selfish agent and an altruistic principal, revealing that the principal's altruism increases with the higher credibility of the bonus.…”

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Government Subsidies in Public-Private Partnership Projects Based on Altruistic Theory

Wang

Gao

Hwang

et al. 2020

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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Nowadays, the public-private partnership (PPP) scheme has been widely adopted in infrastructure projects around the world. In PPP projects, the governments participate as a principal and the investors play the role of an agent, and therefore their behaviours and incentive strategies can be explained and designed by the principal-agent theory. As “economic men” with limited rationality, both the governments and the investors have altruistic preferences during cooperation. This paper studies how project participants’ altruistic preferences affect government subsidies based on the principal-agent theory. To this end, a principal-agent model in the presence of altruism is developed. The results show that the amount of government compensation is related to the altruistic preferences, the expected revenue, costs and investors’ efforts. Contrary to intuition, the governments’ altruism actually undermines the investors’ enthusiasm in cooperation and the risk-sharing propensity, although it increases the utilities of both parties. Moreover, when selecting the investors, governments should examine their operating capacity carefully, which has a significant impact on the sustainable development of the projects and even PPP arrangements. The findings contribute new insights into the development of incentive mechanisms between governments and private investors from the perspective of the behavioural preferences.

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Section: Altruistic Theorymentioning

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Section: Altruistic Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Government Subsidies in Public-Private Partnership Projects Based on Altruistic Theory

Wang

Gao

Hwang

et al. 2020

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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“…Furthermore, unsafe driving behaviour has consistently been associated with both normlessness (i.e. a state in which social norms have been eroded) 6,33,34 and lawlessness (i.e. disregard for the law) 12,34 .…”

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“…a state in which social norms have been eroded) 6,33,34 and lawlessness (i.e. disregard for the law) 12,34 . Understanding how attitudes towards the law influence driving styles could have policy implications for improving pedestrian safety, especially in countries like South Africa, where high rates of criminality may create permissive social norms.…”

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Pedestrian safety: Motorists’ attitudes to the law and driving practices in South Africa

Bantjes,

Du Plessis,

Jansen

et al. 2024

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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In Africa, 40% of traffic fatalities are pedestrians – the highest proportion globally. Yet little is known about driver characteristics that are associated with unsafe driving in African countries. We aimed to explore associations between driving practices that endanger pedestrian safety and motorists’ attitudes to the law (i.e. lawlessness and normlessness), controlling for sociodemographic and personality factors. We used the Response Time Method, based on Russell Fazio’s attitude paradigm, to collect information about driver behaviours, attitudes, and personality traits among a sample of 440 motorists. Male gender was associated with unsafe driving, even when controlling for the effects of personality and attitudes to the law. Unsafe driving was also associated with four dimensions of motorists’ personality, namely aggression, impulsivity, risk tolerance, and altruism, even when controlling for sociodemographic factors. Lawlessness (defined as a general disregard for the law) is also an important determinant of unsafe driving, even when controlling for sociodemographic and personality factors. These findings suggest that efforts to improve pedestrian safety in South Africa should focus on changing motorists’ attitudes to the law.

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On the right combination of altruism and randomness in the motion of homogeneous distributed autonomous agents

Hassoun

Kagan

2021

Nat Comput

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Understanding drivers’ altruistic driving decisions: A theoretically guided investigation

Cited by 14 publications

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Government Subsidies in Public-Private Partnership Projects Based on Altruistic Theory

Government Subsidies in Public-Private Partnership Projects Based on Altruistic Theory

Pedestrian safety: Motorists’ attitudes to the law and driving practices in South Africa

On the right combination of altruism and randomness in the motion of homogeneous distributed autonomous agents

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