Anticipated verbal feedback induces altruistic behavior

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Mixed feelings: Theories of and evidence on giving (2010, background): “In dictator games, Ellingsen and Johannesson (2008) and Xiao and Houser (2007) find that dictator transfers increase at the mere anticipation of recipients’ expression of their feelings about those transfers.”
Environmental Policy Theory Given Bounded Rationality and Other-regarding Preferences (2011, background): “Another example showing the positive effect of non-pecuniary incentives on fostering altruistic behavior is an experimental study by Ellingsen and Johannesson (2008).”
The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information (2015, unknown): “For example, giving away money may have additional value (beyond the direct selfish cost and altruistic benefit) if a person anticipates finding out how the recipient views or uses the gift (Ellingsen and Johannesson, 2008).”
Do people care about social context? Framing effects in dictator games (2012, unknown): “The latter finding is consistent with previous work by Koch and Norman (2008), as well as with the lack of a framing effect in Study 2 of Ellingsen et al. (2012), but raises questions about the interpretation of exit behavior in dictator games.”
Communication and collective action: language and the evolution of human cooperation (2010, unknown): “Ellingsen and Johannesson (2008) used one-shot dictator games to show that allowing anonymous written feedback induced a substantial increase (ca. 40”