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Who cares for social image? : interactions between intrinsic motivation and social image concerns

Friedrichsen, Jana; Engelmann, Dirk - 2013

We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment in which we elicit willingness to pay for conventional and Fairtrade chocolate. Treatments vary whether this can be...

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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015

By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...

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Who cares for social image? : interactions between intrinsic motivation and social image concerns ; conference paper

Friedrichsen, Jana; Engelmann, Dirk - 2013

We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment. In the experiment, we elicit willingness to pay for conventional and Fairtrade chocolate. Treatments vary whether...

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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room : is it a preference or a constraint?

Regner, Tobias - 2016

We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...

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I care what you think: social image concerns and the strategic revelation of past pro-social behavior

von Siemens, Ferdinand A. - In: Journal of the Economic Science Association 6 (2020) 1, pp. 43-56

This article studies whether people want to control what information on their own past pro-social behavior is revealed to others. Participants are assigned a color that depends on their past pro-social behavior. They can spend money to manipulate the probability with which their color is...

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A note on the design of experiments involving public goods

Graves, Philip E. - 2010

economists have turned their attention to the conditions under which free riding would be expected to occur. A model of free …-world dimension of free riding. In a cash-in-advance economy, free riding becomes a two-stage problem, while existing experiments only … the public good and leisure is valuable. Existing experiments start with a given number of "tokens" for each decision …

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Insuring your donation : an experiment

Buijze, Renate; Engel, Christoph; Hemels, Sigrid - 2015

An increasing fraction of donations is channeled through donation intermediaries. These entities serve multiple purposes, one of which seems to be providing donors with greater certainty: that the donation reaches its intended goal, and that the donor may be sure to get a tax benefit. We...

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Locus of Control and Prosocial Behavior

Andor, Mark Andreas; Cox, James C.; Gerster, Andreas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate how locus of control beliefs - the extent to which individuals attribute control over events in their … begin by developing a conceptual framework showing how locus of control beliefs serve as a weight placed on the returns from … in parliamentary elections, and to donate blood. Our results provide comprehensive evidence that locus of control beliefs …

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Donations, risk attitudes and time preferences: A study on altruism in primary school children

Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; … - 2014

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years,how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children’s risk attitudes and intertemporalchoices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by theories of reciprocalaltruism that provide a cornerstone to...

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Unraveling fairness in simple games? The role of empathy and theory of mind

Artinger, Florian; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Koppel, Hannes; … - 2010

. Integral to ToM are beliefs about others. Both, other-regarding and selfish types, show a strong correlation between what they …

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