Jérémy CelseESSCA School of Management · Department of Economics & Society
Jérémy Celse
PhD
Associate Professor in Behavioural Economics @ ESSCA (Bordeaux Campus)
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Introduction
My main research interests are emotions and their impact on decision-making procedure. More precisely, I focus on envy and my research mainly addresses the question of how envy affects individuals’ decisions and what are the determinants modulating envy? I mainly refer on experimental methods. Thanks to experimental methods I can observe subjects’ decisions and connect the latter with subjects’ emotions.
These are some of the questions I am interested in:
What is the connection between effort and the emotional intensity of envy? (Are you more envious when making efforts in vain?)
Is envy powerful enough to refrain people from being immoral?
What strategies can be implemented in the field to fight dishonest behaviours such as fare evasion?
Do emotions channel you into different career pat
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September 2007 - June 2011
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Publications (27)
In this paper we focus on identifying the determinants of cooperation through a laboratory experiment. Randomly paired participants are asked to solve simple mathematical problems and to determine which proportion of their performance they want to contribute to a team account (the rest being contributed to an individual account). The experiment is...
Social vulnerability refers to the inability of some populations, organisations and societies to withstand adverse impacts from multiple stressors to which they are exposed, such as natural hazards. In this paper, we examine the existence of positional concerns (i.e. willingness to incur a loss so as to be above or not to be below others) in social...
We examine dishonest behavior in the face of potential uncertain gains and losses in three pre-studies (N = 150, N = 225, N = 188) and a main study (N = 240). Ample research has shown that people cheat when presented with the opportunity. We use a die-under-cup paradigm, in which participants could dishonestly report a private die roll and thereby...
We characterize negative awards. Their pervasiveness in various domains as well as the objectives of their designers and promoters are documented. We discuss the outcomes generated by negative awards and provide some rationales explaining why individuals and organizations may be interested in getting them. Several issues deserve further exploration...
We present an experiment providing (a) a horse race among different models combining social preferences and risk preferences, and (b) a test of whether agents are socially curious, that is wanting to know about the risk taking of others and the outcomes of their risk taking. We distinguish outcome driven models (that is, models where agents care ab...
Are people more or less willing to burn others’ income if others deservetheir advantage in the sense of having expended some efforts to get it? Weinvestigated the impact of effort on burning decisions. To fulfil ourresearch question, we conducted two experimental conditions: one inwhich participants received endowments randomly and another in which...
People are willing to engage resources to be above others. The existing evidence suggests that health is a non-positional good: people prefer to be healthy even if others are healthier than them. Using a survey-based study, we explore the positionality of several health-related dimensions in a Choice versus Happiness treatment. Most participants ex...
Purpose
Employee’s lying behavior has become ubiquitous at work, and managers are keen to know what can be done to curb such behavior. Managers often apply anti-lying strategies in their management and, in particular, the role of self-awareness on lying intervention has drawn academic attention recently. Drawing on multi-disciplinary literature, th...
The impact of watching eyes cues and descriptive social norm messages on fare evasion was studied in two experiments that were conducted in two railway stations in France. In Study 1, a natural field experiment, passengers were exposed for a two-week period to either a control eye-cues poster or to an experimental eye-cues with a social norm messag...
This research analyzed whether political leaders make people lie via priming experiments. Priming is a non-conscious and implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus affects the response to another. Following priming theories, we proposed an innovative concept that people who perceive leaders to be dishonest (such as liars) are likely t...
In this paper we experimentally explore how lying changes when its consequences are not certain. We argue that, when consequences are not certain, lying is morally less costly because the action of lying does not mechanically result in the obtainment of the benefit and this produces a lower feeling of responsibility in case the benefit is obtained....
There are ample evidences that individual satisfaction does not depend exclusively on individual situation (namely on individual income and leisure) but also on one’s relative position, namely on how one’s situation lies relatively to the situation of other referent agents (Clark and Oswald in J Public Econ 61(3):359–381, 1996. doi:10.1016/0047-272...
Whereas recent evidences suggest absolute inequalities (i.e. inequalities between agents’ income measured in absolute terms) and relative inequalities (i.e. inequalities captured by the ratio between agents’ income) to have different cognitive implications, econometric models consider both measures as interchangeable when referring to individual sa...
Former athletic employees receive a better wage when hired than other employees because recruiters associate positive values to athletic participation. Whereas athletes are considered as more cooperative than others, this assumption lacks empirical support. We implement a laboratory experiment in order to examine whether athletes (i.e., individuals...
Would you prefer to have more or more than others? Solnick and Hemenway (1998) found that the majority of participants prefer to incur a loss rather than being below others. Several studies corroborate the existence and importance of positional concerns and suggest, without demonstrating it, that negative emotions such as envy to be responsible for...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to analyse employees’ lying behaviour and its findings have important implication for the management and prevention strategies of lying in the workplace. Employee lying has caused both reputational and financial damage to employers, organisations and public authorities. This study adopts a psycho-cognitive per...
We investigate experimentally the impact of unflattering social comparisons on individuals' satisfaction and behaviour. More precisely, we focus on negative interdependent preferences and explore whether they are responsible for leading participants to reduce others' income. In our experiment, participants are randomly paired and receive an endowme...
We argue that people choosing prosocial distribution of goods (e.g., in dictator games) make this choice because they do not want to disappoint their partner rather than because of a direct preference for the chosen prosocial distribution. The chosen distribution is a means to fulfil one’s partner’s expectations. We review the economic experiments...
This paper shows that the positional bias underscored by 0080, 0085 and 0090 is an experimental artifact. Quoted authors highlighted the importance of positional concerns by finding that people prefer to earn a fewer absolute amount of income but to earn a higher income than others. Why do people prefer to earn more than others? The proposed explan...
We explore the behavioural and affective differences between subjects practicing sport activities and subjects not practicing sport. Are athletes more distressed by unfavourable social comparisons and more prone to engage in hostile behaviour than non-athletes? Using experimental methods, we investigate the connection between sport practice and ant...
What is envy and how can we define it so as to incorporate the emotion in economic models? Through referring on philosophical and psychological researches, this paper aims at deriving a stable and concise definition of the emotion of envy. Philosophy allows us to define the elements that form envy and to disentangle the latter from other emotions....
We aim at disentangling the impact of effort on social emotions and more particularly on envy. Thus we observe the impact of effort on individual well-being and behaviour. In our experiment subjects are paired and receive endowments whether according to their performance in a real-effort task or randomly. We focus on subjects placed in situations o...
We investigate experimentally the impact of unflattering social comparisons on individuals’ behaviour. More precisely, we examine the relationship between the satisfaction subjects derive from social comparisons and subjects’ decisions to reduce others’ income. In our experiment, subjects are randomly paired and receive an endowment. Then subjects...
Questions
Question (1)
Dear all,
There are many schools that launch projects to reduce students' misconduct and unethical behaviours (plagiarism, cheating on examinations, bullying...) based on the new insights supplied by behavioral ethics.
However I was wondering whether there are evidences showing that promoting ethical conduct among students is beneficial for them during their scholarship. Basically, I am not aware of any paper showing that promoting an ethical culture (such as fighting against the above behaviours) enhances students' academic performance and their learning efficiency during their scholarship. So basically it might more beneficial to let students behave unethically to enhance their creativity and so their overall academic performance.
HERE IS MY QUESTION:
1) Do you know any study showing that promoting academic integrity among students has a beneficial/detrimental effect on students' academic outcomes and learning efficiency?
2) More broadly, do you know any reference examining the relationship between promoting ethics and students' academic performance or students' learning efficiency?
Thanks in advance
J
