Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation: Field Experimental Evidence of the Mobilizing Effects of Pride, Shame and Publicizing Voting Behavior

Panagopoulos, Costas

doi:10.1007/s11109-010-9114-0

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“…7 Panagopoulos (2010) finds that this type of treatment has a positive but weaker effect on voting than listing only those individuals who do not do the socially valued thing. By using this form of the treatment, I am thus both explicitly looking at the effect of promising social esteem (rather than disesteem) and also creating a tougher test for the ingroup status hypothesis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Individuals may be told that joining in will win them the esteem of other group members. On the flip side of the same coin, they may fear the social shaming that will result if they abstain (Panagopoulos 2010). This third mechanism is rooted in a concern for within-group status.…”

Section: Ingroup Esteem and Rallymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When told that whether they vote or abstain will be made public to other members of their households or communities, individuals are more likely to turn up at the polls (e.g., Gerber, Green, and Larimer 2008;Panagopoulos 2010;Sinclair 2012). Indeed, reducing the material costs of voting does not necessarily boost turnout if the act of voting simultaneously becomes more private (Funk 2010); the deleterious effect of less observable voting on turnout has been found to be more dramatic in smaller communities where the desire for social esteem and incentives to avoid shame are likely to be more acute (Funk 2010).…”

Section: Ingroup Esteem and Rallymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This second condition is similar to treatments used in studies of social rewards for voting, specifically to the social "pride" condition in Panagopoulos (2010) in which only individuals who do the socially esteemed thing (voting or, in this case, participating in the rally) are publicly listed. 7 Panagopoulos (2010) finds that this type of treatment has a positive but weaker effect on voting than listing only those individuals who do not do the socially valued thing.…”

Section: Treatmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Esteem and Participation in Contentious Politics: A Field Experiment at an LGBT Pride Rally

McClendon

2013

American J Political Sci

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What motivates individuals to participate in contentious, political forms of collective action? In this article, I consider the possibility that the promise of social esteem from an ingroup can act as a powerful selective incentive for individuals to participate in contentious politics. I conducted a field experiment—the first to my knowledge to take place in the context of a political march, rally, or social‐identity event—to isolate this esteem mechanism from others. Using measures of intent to attend, actual attendance, and reported attendance at a gay and lesbian pride event in New Jersey, I find evidence that the promise of social esteem boosts all three measures of participation. The article offers new theoretical and practical implications for the study of participation in nonvoting forms of collective action.

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Section: Ingroup Esteem and Rallymentioning

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Social Esteem and Participation in Contentious Politics: A Field Experiment at an LGBT Pride Rally

McClendon

2013

American J Political Sci

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“…Soetevent (2005) observed that under specific conditions, church donations increase when neighbors can see how much a person is donating. Panagopoulos (2010) carried out an experiment in which the names of either voters (pride treatment) or nonvoters (shame treatment) in public elections were published in local newspapers and found evidence that shame increased election turn-outs, whereas pride was effective only for sub-groups of society.…”

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Incorporating local institutions in irrigation experiments: evidence from rural communities in Pakistan

Javaid¹,

Falk²

2015

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ABSTRACT. Many irrigation systems are special cases of common-pool resources (CPRs) in which some users have preferential access to the resource, which in theory aggravates collective action challenges such as the under-provision of necessary infrastructure as a result of unequal appropriation of water resources. We present experimental evidence based on an irrigation game played in communities that are dependent on one of the largest contiguous irrigation network: the Indus basin irrigation system in Punjab, Pakistan. Furthermore, we simulate two institutional mechanisms that are neglected in experimental studies, despite their importance in many CPR governance systems: traditional authorities and legal pluralism. In our experiments, Punjabi farmers (N = 160) managed to provide the CPR at a level close to the social optimum, even without communication or enforcement opportunities. The equal investment in water infrastructure seems to be a strong social norm, even though those in disadvantageous positions (tail-users) earn less than those who have preferential access (head-users). At the same time, head-users restrain themselves from maximum resource extraction, which could be interpreted either as a norm or a stationary bandit strategy. In contrast to one of the most consistent findings of previous experimental studies, the participants in our experiment increased their earnings over the experimental rounds by using the available resources in a more efficient manner. One explanation for this behavior could be the availability of social information in our game. Starting from a high level of cooperation during baseline rounds, the treatments did not change the group investment significantly. The introduction of external sanctions created additional coordination problems, which led to a decrease in the level of group welfare. More specifically, head-users reduced their water extraction in the face of possible external sanctions to a level that the remaining water could not be used completely by tail-users.

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The influence of population characteristics on household response to a charity book collection based on pledges and social pressure

Cotterill

2016

Int. J. Nonprofit Volunt. Sect. Mark.

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The success of a charitable campaign will depend on many factors, including solicitation technique, population characteristics, and type of charity. We implemented a randomised controlled trial to assess the effect of pledging and social pressure on the charitable donation behaviour of households. We implemented a charitable book collection in two different geographical areas, with one being more affluent, more ethnically diverse, and with higher levels of education. We received a marked variation in response: overall, across both treatment groups and control group, the number of households who donated books was higher in one area than the other. However, we did not find any evidence of a heterogeneous response to the pledge and social pressure interventions, compared to the control group.

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Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation: Field Experimental Evidence of the Mobilizing Effects of Pride, Shame and Publicizing Voting Behavior

Cited by 186 publications

References 36 publications

Social Esteem and Participation in Contentious Politics: A Field Experiment at an LGBT Pride Rally

Social Esteem and Participation in Contentious Politics: A Field Experiment at an LGBT Pride Rally

Incorporating local institutions in irrigation experiments: evidence from rural communities in Pakistan

The influence of population characteristics on household response to a charity book collection based on pledges and social pressure

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