Anonymity versus privacy in the dictator game: revealing donor decisions to recipients does not substantially impact donor behavior.

ABSTRACT: Anonymity is often offered in economic experiments in order to eliminate observer effects and induce behavior that would be exhibited under private circumstances. However, anonymity differs from privacy in that interactants are only unaware of each others' identities, while having full knowledge of each others' actions. Such situations are rare outside the laboratory and anonymity might not meet the requirements of some participants to psychologically engage as if their actions were private. In order to explore the impact of a lack of privacy on prosocial behaviors, I expand on a study reported in Dana et al. (2006) in which recipients were left unaware of the Dictator Game and given donations as "bonuses" to their show-up fees for other tasks. In the current study, I explore whether diffe

SUBMITTER: Winking J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4274055 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature