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Alos-Ferrer, Carlos, Garcia-Segarra, Jaume ORCID: 0000-0002-3112-9275 and Ritschel, Alexander (2018). Performance curiosity. J. Econ. Psychol., 64. S. 1 - 18. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 1872-7719

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Abstract

We show that performance curiosity - the desire to know one's own (relative) performance-can trump inequality aversion. In two experiments (combined N = 450), participants chose between an equal allocation and a performance-based one after generating surplus in a real-effort task. In the experimental treatment, choosing an equal allocation came at the cost of not knowing the own performance, which led to a substantial increase of performance-based choices in comparison with the control treatment. The effect seems especially pronounced for women, but the gender effect is due to a difference in expectations regarding performance. Interestingly, the manipulation equalized the proportion of equal allocation choices between males and females compensating for their difference in expectations. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Alos-Ferrer, Carlos UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Garcia-Segarra, Jaume UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3112-9275 UNSPECIFIED Ritschel, Alexander UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-197659
DOI:	10.1016/j.joep.2017.08.002
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Econ. Psychol.
Volume:	64
Page Range:	S. 1 - 18
Date:	2018
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1872-7719
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EPISTEMIC CURIOSITY; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; SOCIAL PREFERENCES; DICTATOR GAME; SELF; FEEDBACK; COMPETITION; AVERSION; INFORMATION; ANONYMITY Multiple languages Economics; Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19765