...Arnaud Wolff Recent work in behavioral economics has suggested that individuals derive utility from the beliefs that they hold. The objective of this paper is to reevaluate the idea that (i) individuals care about their self-image and (ii) individuals self-signal. I first argue that the desired...

...Astrid Matthey; Tobias Regner We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000) , a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its...