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| Title: | | Do i really want to know? A cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior  |
| Authors: | | Matthey, Astrid Regner, Tobias |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2010,077 |
| Abstract: | | We investigate to what extent genuine social preferences can explain observed other-regarding behavior. In a dictator game variant subjects can choose whether to learn about the consequences of their choice for the receiver. We find that a majority of subjects showing other-regarding behavior when the payoffs of the receiver are known, choose to ignore these consequences if possible. This behavior is inconsistent with preferences about outcomes. Other-regarding behavior may also be explained by avoiding cognitive dissonance as in Konow (2000). Our experiment's choice data is in line with this approach. In addition, we successfully relate individual behavior to proxies for cognitive dissonance. |
| Subjects: | | social preferences other-regarding behavior experiments social dilemma cognitive dissonance |
| JEL: | | C72 D01 C91 D80 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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