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Reputational concerns, not altruism, motivate restraint when gambling with other people's money

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Title
Reputational concerns, not altruism, motivate restraint when gambling with other people's money
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Frontiers in Psychology, June 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00848
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Kodi B. Arfer, Michael T. Bixter, Christian C. Luhmann

Abstract

People may behave prosocially not only because they value the welfare of others, but also to protect their own reputation. We examined the separate roles of altruism and reputational concerns in moral-hazard gambling tasks, which allowed subjects to gamble with a partner's money. In Study 1, subjects who were told that their partner would see their choices were more prosocial. In Study 2, subjects were more prosocial to a single partner when their choices were transparent than when their choices were attributed to a third party. We conclude that reputational concerns are a key restraint on selfish exploitation under moral hazard.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 41 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 20%
Student > Bachelor 7 17%
Researcher 5 12%
Student > Master 5 12%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 10 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 19 46%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 10%
Social Sciences 3 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 2%
Decision Sciences 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 12 29%
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