Experimenter Demand Effects and Altruism towards the Experimenter

Piers Fleming and Daniel Zizzo
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Piers Fleming: University of East Anglia

No 13-04, Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) from School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Abstract: As a stress test of experimenter demand effects, we run an experiment where subjects can physically destroy coupons awarded to them. About one subject out of three does. Giving money back to the experimenter is possible in a separate task but is more consistent with an experimenter demand effect than an explanation based on altruism towards the experimenter. A measure of sensitivity to social pressure helps predict destruction when social information is provided.

Keywords: altruism; experimenter demand effects; social information; social pressure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B41 C72 C91 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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