Selfies, therefore Selfish? An Experiment on the Impact and Value of a Selfie
Författare
Summary, in English
We investigate whether taking a selfie affects our willingness to cooperate and what factors affect our willingness to publish certain information on the web. Consistent with behavioral addiction theories, taking a selfie has a strong negative impact on cooperation among subjects who take selfies frequently, but not on other subjects. We also find that adding a selfie to information about the subject's degree of cooperation will increase the subject's unwillingness to publish her information. This selfie premium is significantly negatively correlated with the subject's degree of cooperation. Furthermore, we find lower heterogeneity in the premium demanded for publishing a subject's degree of cooperation when it is accompanied by a selfie, as subjects become less concerned about hiding or promoting their contribution.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2016
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Working Papers
Issue
2016:8
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Working paper
Förlag
Department of Economics, Lund University
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- selfie
- cooperation
- social media
- social image
- C90
- C91
- D80
- D82
Status
Published