Effects of double-anonymity on pro- and anti-social behavior: Experimental evidence from a lab in the field

• Published in: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics Vol. 81; pp. 216 - 225
• Main Author: Vorlaufer, Tobias
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Inc 01.08.2019; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Anonymity; Antisocial behavior; Antisocial personality disorder; Behavioral decision theory; Decision making; Deviance; Dictator Game; Double Anonymity; Experimenter-Demand Effects; Field Experiments; Happiness; Joy-of-Destruction; Privacy; Researcher subject relations; Social behavior; Treatment methods; Joy-of-Destruction; Experimenter-Demand Effects; Dictator Game; Field Experiments; Double Anonymity

•Different degrees of subject-experimenter anonymity are studied.•With a dictator game and joy-of-destruction mini-game in rural Namibia.•Strict subject-experimenter anonymity does not affect behavior.•Revealing decisions to experimenter affects behavior in 1 out of 2 treatments. This paper examines...