Priming in Behavioral Public Administration: Methodological and Practical Considerations for Research and Scholarship

Ngoye, Benard; Sierra, Vicenta; Ysa, Tamyko; Awan, Sahar

doi:10.1080/10967494.2018.1495672

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“…The clearest solution to low statistical power, as Walker and his associates (2019) suggested, would be to increase the sample size, for example, through a replication. However, note that this study found significant results on hypotheses despite small samples and thus low statistical power that is generally more prone to returning false negatives (Ngoye et al, 2020). Also, this study tried to assuage the concern that a sample could be significantly biased-another problem of small-N studies-through a bootstrap method, of which results were consistent with the main findings.…”

Section: Limitations Future Directions and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 52%

The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment

2021

Administration & Society

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To what extent does public service motivation (PSM) affect how monetary rewards and promotion opportunities motivate government officials? This study offers an answer to this question through a survey experiment conducted with a sample of city government officials in Florida. The experimental results demonstrate that both monetary and promotion reward treatments positively motivate officials with low PSM. However, as the level of PSM increases, the positive treatment effect of the monetary reward decreases and converges on 0. Conversely, the positive effect of the promotion opportunity treatment not only decreases but becomes negative, indicating that PSM crowding out is taking place.

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Section: Limitations Future Directions and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 52%

The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment

2021

Administration & Society

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“…The first limitation concerns the experimental design. Questioning public officials about their local delivery preferences before the experiment may have primed participants by stimulating them to think about their local delivery preferences (Ngoye et al 2020). However, we argue that this had a limited effect on participants as the order of the experiments shown to them was randomized (two survey experiments were embedded in the questionnaire, one of which is reported in this article).…”

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Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information

Lerusse

Walle

2022

Public Administration Review

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Governance preferences influence how public officials process performance data about service providers. Based on motivated reasoning theory, we examine the extent to which local delivery preferences—preferences for contracting with local service providers over contracting with non‐local ones—influence public managers' and politicians' interpretation of performance data. We firstly expect public officials to misinterpret evidence that contradicts their local delivery preferences and we, secondly, hypothesize that politicians are more prone to biases than public managers are. We test these hypotheses by conducting a randomized survey experiment among 4,000 public officials in Belgium. The results indicate that public officials tend to show a bias for local providers, but not for non‐local providers. Yet, we found no significant differences between politicians and public managers. Our study provides new evidence about the influence of governance preferences on the interpretation of performance information, and calls into question its effective use by politicians and public managers.

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“…By introducing the implicit measurement method of ILTs, we respond to calls from the field of general leadership studies (Epitropaki et al, 2013). Our methodological choice ties in with the recently increasing acknowledgement of implicit methods in PA (Ngoye et al, 2018) and successful cases of their application (Marvel & Resh, 2019).…”

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“…Drawing on these principles, we explore which leadership associations arise in the context of public versus private organizations and investigate how sector differences manifest in individuals' social constructions of leadership. Doing so, we apply an implicit priming method, which allows us to tap into the implicit components of people's ILTs that are not captured by explicit rating scales (Bargh, 2006; Ngoye et al, 2018).…”

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“…We address this gap and pursue the following research question: “Do social attributions to leaders differ depending on sector (i.e., public vs. private) and performance cues (i.e., success vs. failure), and if so, how and at which strength?” We tackle this question in an online scenario experiment with a total of n = 734 German employees. To account for the implicit dimension of social attributions, we apply the Semantic Misattribution Procedure (SMP; Imhoff et al, 2011), thus extending the range of implicit methods in PA research (e.g., Marvel & Resh, 2019; Ngoye et al, 2018) and responding to calls to “roam more freely through the disciplines and experiment with a variety of methods” (Crosby & Bryson, 2018, p. 1265). Results of linear mixed modeling (LMM) show that followers' social attributions to leaders vary mainly as a result of interactions between the sector and performance context.…”

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The a priori of public leadership: Social attributions to public and private leaders in different performance contexts

Hesmert

Hattke

Vogel

2021

Public Administration

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Previous scholarship provides little insight into the differences between public and private leadership in people's a priori assumptions about leaders. We advance a socio‐cognitive approach and examine how implicit social attributions to leaders are contingent on sector and performance cues. Participants completed the Semantic Misattribution Procedure to reveal implicit associations of traits with leaders in contrasting scenarios. Results show that sector cues affect such attributions, which in turn influence behavioral intentions, but only so in interaction with performance information. We conclude that public leaders earn fewer credits for success or failure than private leaders.

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Priming in Behavioral Public Administration: Methodological and Practical Considerations for Research and Scholarship

Cited by 9 publications

References 79 publications

The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment

The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment

Buying from Local Providers: The Role of Governance Preferences in Assessing Performance Information

The a priori of public leadership: Social attributions to public and private leaders in different performance contexts

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