Everyone Take Copies

I have a new working paper with Bart Wilson titled: “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car: Moral Intuition for Intellectual Property.” 

The title of this post, “everyone take copies,” comes from a conversation between the human subjects in an experiment in our lab, on which the paper is based. The experiment was studying how and when people take resources from one another. 

The people in the game each control a round avatar in a virtual environment, as you can see in this screenshot below. 

In the experiment...