Smile,Dictator, You're on Camera |
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| Authors: | Joy A. Buchanan Matthew K. McMahon Matthew Simpson Bart J. Wilson |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis, Brock School of Business, Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL 35229, USA;2. E‐mail:;3. corresponding author.;4. George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA;5. E‐mail: .;6. Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, 146 Middlebush Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;7. Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy & Economic Science Institute, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866, USA |
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| 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. |
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| Keywords: | A13 C70 C93 D63 |
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