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Image spillovers in groups and misreporting

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We study the production of social image in social groups. In our experiment, we recruit pairs of real-life friends and study whether rule breaking in the form of misreporting decreases when misreporting may have negative spillovers on the image of the friend. We find that participants hurt their friends’ social image by misreporting: external observers update their beliefs and rightfully expect that a participant whose friend misreported is likely to misreport himself. However, participants misreport as often when their behavior can hurt their friends’ image as when it cannot, even though hurting their friends’ image reduces their own monetary gains. Our interpretation is that they underestimate the impact of their behavior on external observers’ beliefs about their friends. Our results show that, even in our case where group membership is salient, groups might have difficulties building a good image.

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hal-04296138 , version 1 (20-11-2023)

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Rémi Suchon, Daniel Houser. Image spillovers in groups and misreporting. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 198, pp.302-314. ⟨10.1016/j.jebo.2022.04.007⟩. ⟨hal-04296138⟩

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