Markets and Anti-Social Behavior : The Roles of Individual Price-Setting Power and Self-Selection

This dissertation contains studies adding to the existing literature about the influence of markets and specific characteristics of markets on people's (situational) moral behavior. The first study isolates the effect of price bargaining--a characteristic of markets previously untested in this context--, the second study experimentally tests for a self-selection bias when running online (cloud-work) experiments about these moral dimensions of human behavior. Bargaining is shown to favor anti-social behavior. Smaller batch size in online (cloud-work) experiments is shown to favor self-selection of highly competitive individuals, and to result in more anti-social behavior as well.