Smile, Dictator, You're on Camera

C-Tier
Journal: Southern Economic Journal
Year: 2017
Volume: 84
Issue: 1
Pages: 52-65

Authors (4)

Joy A. Buchanan (Samford University) Matthew K. McMahon (not in RePEc) Matthew Simpson (not in RePEc) Bart J. Wilson (Chapman University)

Score contribution per author:

0.251 = (α=2.01 / 4 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We investigate the degree to which people in a shopping mall express other‐regarding behavior in the dictator game. Whereas many studies have attempted to increase the social distance between the dictator and experimenter and between the dictator and recipient, we attempt to minimize that social distance between random strangers by video recording the decisions, with the permission of the dictators, to display their image on the Internet. Offers made by dictators are high, relative to other experiments, and a nontrivial number give the entire experimental windfall away. However, a nontrivial number of people keep everything as well.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:wly:soecon:v:84:y:2017:i:1:p:52-65
Journal Field
General
Author Count
4
Added to Database
2026-01-25