Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 3, 2004 erstellt
Beschreibung:
Economic and social psychological models of human behavior suggest that concern with one's reputation limits strategic misrepresentation in social decision making. The authors tested this assumption in 2 experiments. In Exp. 1 (N = 86) participants gave more deceitful information under anonymity than under public scrutiny, no matter whether the public knowledge about their lies had economic consequences or not, which supports the social-psychological rather than the economical model. Exp. 1 (N = 54) showed that the effect of mere observation is moderated by self-monitoring, such that high self-monitors restrained more from lying when being observed than low self-monitors