Social Image and the 50-50 Norm: A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Audience Effects

By James Andreoni. 2009

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Subfields: Demography, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research

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Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia (2011, background): “Douglas Bernheim 2009; Tore Ellingsen and Magnus Johannesson 2008; Adriaan R. Soetevant 2005; Mari Rege and Kjetil Telle 2004; Lakhani and von Hippel 2003; Yuqing Ren, Robert Kraut and Sara Kiesler 2007). These studies in general find that social effects encourage contribution. These studies except ”
Fundraising through online social networks: A field experiment on peer-to-peer solicitation (2014, neutral): “” Related work has been conducted by Andreoni and Bernheim (2009), who examine audience effects on donation decisions, and by Karlan and McConnell (2012), who test for reputation effects on decision-making using giving circles.”
The power of asking: How communication affects selfishness, empathy, and altruism (2011, background): “However, in our daily lives we are exposed to inequality regularly, but take costly actions to lessen it only in special circumstances, such as when asked to give a charitable donation (Andreoni and Payne, 2003; Landry et al., 2006) or observed by an audience (Andreoni and Bernheim, 2009).”
Commitment and Behavior Change: Evidence from the Field (2013, background): “Commitment and Consistency The principle of consistency derives from cognitive dissonance theory, which suggests that individuals have an internal need to keep attitudes and beliefs in harmony (Festinger 1957).”
Mixed feelings: Theories of and evidence on giving (2010, background): “One stylized fact is that long-run affect is 7 One possibility that Andreoni and Payne (2003) formalize and corroborate empirically is that private charities reduce fund-raising efforts, when they receive government grants.”
Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving (2015, positive): “…from existing literature by documenting self-serving responses to objective risk in a social setting absent other factors, such as image concerns (Andreoni and Bernheim, 2009), information acquisition (Dana et al., 2006), ambiguity (Haisley and Weber, 2010), or actions of others (Falk and…”
Dictator games: a meta study (2011, background): “A lottery determines whether the dictator's choice is implemented, or whether it is replaced by a random draw (a key contribution is Andreoni and Bernheim 2009).”
The external validity of giving in the dictator game (2012, background): “…from other studies demonstrates that standard double blind procedures render less anonymity than methods with a random mechanism such as the randomized response technique (Franzen and Pointner 2012) or decision concealment by using a chance mechanism (Dana et al. 2007; Andreoni and Bernheim 2009).”
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others’ Altruism (2015, neutral): “5 See Andreoni and Bernheim (2009).”