Why does anonymity make us misbehave: Different norms or less compliance?

Autor(en)

Eryk Krysowski, James Tremewan

Abstrakt

In a laboratory experiment we investigate whether bad behavior in anonymous environments results from more lenient social norms or a reduction in the size of the role played by social norms in decision-making. We elicit social norms in two dictator games with different levels of anonymity, estimate subjects' willingness-to-pay to adhere to norms, and test for treatment differences in each factor. Overall, it is a large reduction in the role played by social norms, which results in more unfair dictator choices when anonymous. Interestingly, however, females find making an unfair decision less acceptable when the dictator is unidentified. (JEL A13, C91, Z10)

Organisation(en)

Wiener Zentrum für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Auckland, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU)

Journal

Economic Inquiry

Band

59

Seiten

776-789

Anzahl der Seiten

14

ISSN

0095-2583

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12955

Publikationsdatum

10-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

502045 Verhaltensökonomie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Economics and Econometrics, Business, Management and Accounting(all)

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/why-does-anonymity-make-us-misbehave-different-norms-or-less-compliance(859fbe1a-76bb-4a37-b859-2a0a4f6dde14).html