Self-Signaling in Moral Voting

Autor(en)
Lydia Mechtenberg, Grischa Perino, Nicolas Treich, Jean-Robert Tyran, Stephanie Wang
Abstrakt

This paper presents a two-wave survey experiment on self-image concerns in moral voting. We elicit votes on the so-called Horncow Initiative. This initiative required subsidization of farmers who refrain from dehorning. We investigate how non-consequentialist and non-deontological messages changing the moral self-signaling value of a Yes vote affect selection and processing of consequentialist information, and reported voting behavior. We find that a message enhancing the self-signaling value of a Yes vote is effective: voters agree more with arguments in favor of the initiative, anticipate more frequently voting in favor, and report more frequently having voted in favor of the initiative.

Organisation(en)
Wiener Zentrum für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Rektorat
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität Hamburg, Université Toulouse-I-Capitole, University of Pittsburgh
Anzahl der Seiten
37
Publikationsdatum
01-2021
ÖFOS 2012
502045 Verhaltensökonomie
Schlagwörter
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/selfsignaling-in-moral-voting(c24f8223-2604-4304-8407-a8df5f935963).html