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Research has shown that to properly understand people’s economic behavior, it is important to take into account their emotional attitudes towards each other. Behavioral economics shows that different attitudes results in different economy-related behavior. A natural question is: where do these emotional attitudes come from? We show that, in principle, such emotions can be explained by people’s objective functions. Specifically, we show it on the example of a person whose main objective is to increase his/her country’s GDP: in this case, the corresponding optimization problem leads exactly to natural emotions towards people who contribute a lot or a little towards this objective.
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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants 1623190 (A Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science), and HRD-1834620 and HRD-2034030 (CAHSI Includes), and by the AT &T Fellowship in Information Technology.
It was also supported by the program of the development of the Scientific-Educational Mathematical Center of Volga Federal District No. 075-02-2020-1478, and by a grant from the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI).
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Reyes, C., Kreinovich, V., Van Le, C. (2024). Economy-Related Emotional Attitudes Towards Other People: How Can We Explain Them?. In: Ngoc Thach, N., Kreinovich, V., Ha, D.T., Trung, N.D. (eds) Optimal Transport Statistics for Economics and Related Topics. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 483. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35763-3_13
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