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

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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 revealed to another participant. The data show that participants are more likely to reveal colors with more favorable informational content. This pattern is not found in a control treatment in which colors are randomly assigned, thus revealing nothing about past pro-social behavior. Regression analysis confirms these findings, also when controlling for past pro-social behavior. These results complement the existing empirical evidence, confirming that people strategically and, therefore, consciously manipulate their social image.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Journal of the Economic Science Association ; ISSN: 2199-6784 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 43-56 ; New York, NY: Springer US

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Thema
Social signaling
Altruism
Trustworthiness

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
von Siemens, Ferdinand A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer US
(wo)
New York, NY
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.1007/s40881-020-00085-2
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • von Siemens, Ferdinand A.
  • Springer US

Entstanden

  • 2020

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