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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Regner T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8219908 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in psychology 20210609
Our experimental design systematically varies image concerns in a dictator/trust game. In comparison to the baseline, we either decrease the role of self-image concerns (by providing an excuse for selfish behavior) or increase the role of social-image concerns (by conveying the transfer choice to a third person). In this set up, we analyze the underlying processes that motivate subjects to give less/more. Controlling for distributional preferences and expectations, our results indicate that mora ...[more]