Free riding, public goods and cognitive dissonance: An experimental approach

• Main Authors: Guo, Lingling S., Lapuz, Elaine Christine N., Tuvida, Maervic T., Wong, Lat C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Human behavior; Public goods; Cognitive dissonance; Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14345
• Institution: De La Salle University

Is the motivation to free-ride based mainly on naked cost-benefit considerations? Can psychological theories of cognitive dissonance help deepen our understanding of an individual's free-riding behavior? In this paper, the authors modify a Voluntary Contributions Mechanism experiment in order t...