scholarly journals Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Bateson ◽  
Daniel Nettle ◽  
Gilbert Roberts

We examined the effect of an image of a pair of eyes on contributions to an honesty box used to collect money for drinks in a university coffee room. People paid nearly three times as much for their drinks when eyes were displayed rather than a control image. This finding provides the first evidence from a naturalistic setting of the importance of cues of being watched, and hence reputational concerns, on human cooperative behaviour.

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 20130884 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. Raihani

Concerns for reputation can promote cooperative behaviour. Individuals that behave cooperatively stand to benefit if they gain in influence, status or are more likely to be chosen as interaction partners by others. Most theoretical and empirical models of cooperation predict that image score will increase with cooperative contributions. Individuals are therefore expected to make higher contributions when observed by others and should opt to make contributions publicly rather than privately, particularly when contributions are higher than average. Here, however, I find the opposite effect. Using data from an online fundraising website, I show that donors are more likely to opt for anonymity when making extremely low and extremely high donations. Mid-range donations, on the other hand, are typically publicized. Recent work has shown that extremely generous individuals may be ostracized or punished by group members. The data presented here suggest that individuals may hide high donations to avoid these repercussions.


2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Swenson ◽  
C. M. Schaeffer ◽  
S. W. Henggeler ◽  
R. Faldowski ◽  
A. M. Mayhew

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Witthöft ◽  
R Link ◽  
S Christensen ◽  
HW Busch ◽  
W Gickler ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Daniel Hochfellner ◽  
Haris Ziko ◽  
Hesham Elsayed ◽  
Monika Cigler ◽  
Lisa Knoll ◽  
...  

Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1071-P ◽  
Author(s):  
REEMA MODY ◽  
QING HUANG ◽  
MARIA YU ◽  
HIREN PATEL ◽  
RUIZHI ZHAO ◽  
...  

Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1557-P
Author(s):  
KRISTINA BOYE ◽  
REEMA MODY ◽  
JIANMIN WU ◽  
MAUREEN J. LAGE ◽  
FADY T. BOTROS ◽  
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