Social dilemms and characterization of individuals: a study applied to empathic and impatient behavior

Abstract

Behavioral Economics (BE), when studying pro-social behavior, uses a set of tools to analyze the economic agent, as different from individual maximization, postulated in traditional economics as a source of balance, the best result, in contexts known as dilemmas social, is the result of collective maximization. Empathic and impatient behaviors stand out as latent to the pro-social, directly impacting social dilemmas. Thus, we seek to understand how socioeconomic, biological and motor characteristics can affect such behaviors and, therefore, influence the handling of dilemmas. To reach the audience of this research, the online application form system was used, with questions regarding the characteristics, as well as the games proposed to study impatience and empathy. A relationship was found between gender, age, laterality, children, belief and empathetic and impatient behaviors, as well as a negative correlation between the behaviors studied. It is noteworthy that the higher the cost involved (which may add affective cost or opportunity cost) in the situation, the lower the empathy.