How much inequality of earnings do people perceive as just? The effect of interviewer presence and monetary incentives on inequality preferences

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• dc.contributor.author Liebig, Stefan
• dc.contributor.author May, Meike
• dc.contributor.author Sauer, Carsten
• dc.contributor.author Schneider, Simone M.
• dc.contributor.author Valet, Peter
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-12T09:32:45Z
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• dc.date.issued 2015
• dc.date.updated 2024-07-12T09:32:45Z
• dc.description.abstract This paper describes two studies designed to test how two structural conditions of an interview situation - the presence of an interviewer and use of incentives - influence respondents' preferences regarding inequality. According to goal-framing theory and findings from empirical justice research, different goal frames are activated in different types of relationships, producing different distributional preferences: Cooperative situations induce a normative goal frame resulting in a stronger preference for equality whereas competitive situations induce a gain frame in which individuals have stronger preferences for inequality. Assuming the former type of relationship is established by the presence of an interviewer and the latter type by incentivizing, we conducted two studies to test our hypotheses. The results suggest that building a cooperative relationship through interviewer presence and cooperation priming leads to a preference for equality, while use of incentives leads to a clear preference for inequality.
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• dc.identifier.citation Liebig S, May M, Sauer C, Schneider M, Valet P. How much inequality of earnings do people perceive as just? The effect of interviewer presence and monetary incentives on inequality preferences. Methods, Data, Analyses. 2015;9(1):57-86. DOI: 10.12758/mda.2015.002
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.12758/mda.2015.002
• dc.identifier.issn 1864-6956
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60742
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
• dc.relation.ispartof Methods, Data, Analyses. 2015;9(1):57-86
• dc.rights © The Author(s) 2015. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
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• dc.subject.keyword Justice attitudes
• dc.subject.keyword Inequality preferences
• dc.subject.keyword Interviewer presence
• dc.subject.keyword Incentives
• dc.subject.keyword Priming
• dc.subject.keyword Survey methodology
• dc.title How much inequality of earnings do people perceive as just? The effect of interviewer presence and monetary incentives on inequality preferences
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