Let Me See You! A Video Experiment on the Social Dimension of Risk Preferences

Werner Güth (), Maria Levati and Matteo Ploner

Czech Economic Review, 2011, vol. 5, issue 2, 211-225

Abstract: Previous studies have shown that individuals are less other-regarding when their own payoff is risky than when it is sure. Empirical observations also indicate that people care more about identifiable than unidentifiable others. We report on an experiment designed to explore whether rendering the other identifiable—via a speechless video—can affect the relation between other-regarding concerns and preferences over social risk. For this sake, we elicit risk attitudes under two treatments differing in whether the actor can see the other or not. We find that seeing the other does not affect behavior significantly: regardless of the treatment, individuals are self-oriented as to allocation of risk, though they are other-regarding with respect to expected payoffs.

Keywords: Risk attitudes; other-regarding concerns; identifiability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D63 D81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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