Don't patronize me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship

Arbeitspapier

Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem-although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information available to the interfering party (paternalist). Subjects do not resist to show to the paternalist that they were able to find the correct solution. Instead, two motives seem to play a role. First, subjects prefer to have produced or `authored' the solution themselves. Second, subjects desire to signal their authorship and hence their independence to the paternalist.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual ; Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
• Thema: self-esteem ; image concerns ; autonomy ; competence ; paternalism ; self-determination ; preference for authorship

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lübbecke, Silvia ; Schnedler, Wendelin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• (wo): Kiel, Hamburg
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/208385
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ