Parking ticket behind windscreen wiper — (featured image: Paul Sableman/Flickr CC BY)

Why does favouritism persist?

6 min readJan 29, 2021

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(featured image: Paul Sableman/Flickr CC BY)

We tend to be ambivalent towards preferential treatment — kind of OK when we benefit (or we grant it to others), but dislike it when it’s others who gain. Or is it not that simple?

Koen Smets

Written by Koen Smets

Accidental behavioural economist in search of wisdom. Uses insights from (behavioural) economics in organization development. On Twitter as @koenfucius

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