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