Data for: Prosocial and moral behavior under decision reveal in a public environment

SND-ID: 2024-95.

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.17632/52z4nrbvht.1

Citation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Gustav Tinghög - Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Management and Engineering Economics

Per Andersson - Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning Psychology

Arvid Erlandsson - Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning Psychology

Daniel Vastfjall - Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning Psychology

Research principal

Linköping University

Description

Data from a behavioral experiment exploring the effect of public reveal on prosocial behavior and moral judgments. Here we provide raw data from a behavioral experiment exploring how altruistic behavior, cooperation and moral judgments in sacrificial dilemmas are affected by being made in public. Data was collected in a lab experiment conducted with a student sample at Linköping university. Subjects (n=374) either made decisions in a public or a private condition. We manipulate public reveal of decisions while keeping constant an environment of being observed by others. In the public condition decisions were instantly presented to other subjects on a screen next to their name and photo. We also provide data on gender age and familiar peers.

See main article for details and supplementary materials for the English translations of the question items showed to participants.

Data contains personal data

Language

English

Method and outcome

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Data collection

Description of the mode of collection: In the supplement to the article is the whole experiment/questions as the population saw them. The data file is selfcontained; variable descriptions are included in the column titles in the Excel file

Geographic coverage

Administrative information

Topic and keywords

Research area

Psychology (excluding applied psychology) (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Keywords

Experimental psychology, Charity, Cooperativity, Behavioral economics, Experimental economics, Moral dilemmas

Publications

Andersson, P. A., Erlandsson, A., Västfjäll, D., & Tinghög, G. (2020). Prosocial and moral behavior under decision reveal in a public environment. In Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Vol. 87). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2020.101561
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2020.101561
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-169755
SwePub: oai:DiVA.org:liu-169755