Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? An experimental study about self-awareness in status-seeking behavior

DOI10.1007/S11238-014-9469-5MaRDI QIDQ893034zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mitesh Kataria, Tobias Regner

Publication date 13 November 2015

Published in Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10419/70167

zbMATH Keywords

experimentbeliefsself-awarenesssocial statusself-deceptionself-image

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental studies (91A90)

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