EAGER: The Covenants We Live by: Normative Social Influences on Behavior

EAGER：我们赖以生存的契约：规范的社会对行为的影响

• 批准号: 1243043
• 负责人: Erin Lea Krupka
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1243043&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Covenants; Live; Normative; Social

This project funds exploratory work on new and potentially transformative methods for using laboratory experiments to study the effects of social influences on economic choices. Understanding how the expectations of others affect individual decision making has become increasingly important in Economics. There is empirical evidence that people are willing to punish others for not cooperating in public goods provision, and similar behavior has been observed in other contexts as well. This is an important topic of study, because understanding how these social factors influence decisions may provide an explanation for observations that otherwise appear to contradict the usual economic models of self-interested behavior. In addition, we know that coordinating behavior and expectations is important in strategic situations; social influences and expectations may be a key means of such coordination. The award supports work on a new method called an "elicitation protocol" that may be useful across a wide range of social science disciplines. The protocol, if successful, will help researchers identify social influences across a broad range of individual decisions. Broader impacts include the possible use of this method to help firms, governments, and consumer groups better understand individual behavior. The results may therefore be useful for government policy that seeks to shape such behavior in areas such as retirement saving. Funds will also help to support the PI's ongoing work with undergraduate students from under-represented groups.

该项目为使用实验室实验研究社会影响对经济选择的影响的新的和潜在的变革方法提供了探索性工作。 了解他人的期望如何影响个人决策在经济学中变得越来越重要。 有经验证据表明，人们愿意惩罚他人不合作公共物品提供，并且在其他情况下也观察到了类似的行为。 这是一个重要的研究主题，因为了解这些社会因素如何影响决策可能会为观察结果提供解释，这些观察似乎与自我利益行为的通常经济模型相矛盾。 此外，我们知道协调行为和期望在战略情况下很重要。社会影响和期望可能是这种协调的关键手段。 该奖项支持以一种称为“启发协议”的新方法的工作，该方法可能在广泛的社会科学学科中很有用。 该协议（如果成功）将帮助研究人员确定各种个人决策的社会影响。 更广泛的影响包括可能使用这种方法来帮助公司，政府和消费者团体更好地了解个人行为。 因此，结果对于试图在退休节省等领域塑造这种行为的政府政策可能很有用。资金还将有助于支持PI与来自代表性不足的团体的本科生的持续工作。