Does social identity affect how decision makers consume and digest new information? We study this question through a … cost. Making social identity observable significantly affects information acquisition and makes receivers more prone to … truthtelling. This change in information acquisition has implications for optimal decision making: it negatively affects receivers …

anonymously in a group, could pay a cost either to obtain information about their counterparts, or to create a freely available … attain higher levels of cooperation compared to a treatment without monitoring. Information about past conduct alone thus …