Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279158 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10409
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper explores the reluctance of men (women) to acknowledge or recognise the work, comments, and claims of new ideas by other men (women) via widespread and intense demonstrations of indifference. Instances like desk rejections by journals by not allowing papers to reach a review stage, deliberately ignoring responses to respectful and cordial emails, or not referring to relevant papers in references may be related to a kind of status-seeking behaviour beyond what is projected as the real reason for such actions. Against this backdrop, this paper draws from the contemporary experimental psychology and economic theory literature on the causes and consequences of status-seeking behaviour. It integrates the idea in a simple two-player non-cooperative game theoretic framework to explain why even in a world where "Recognition" is a socially optimal strategy, "Indifference" will persist at an equilibrium. We also look at the formation of self-pampering clusters in social media as a resistance to indifference.
Subjects: 
experimental psychology
status-seeking behaviour
indifference
recognition
non-cooperative games
repeated games
JEL: 
D91
C72
C73
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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