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We investigate experimentally the impact of unflattering social comparisons on individuals’ behaviour. More precisely, we examine the relationship between the satisfaction subjects derive from social comparisons and subjects’ decisions to reduce others’ income. In our experiment, subjects are randomly paired and receive an endowment. Then subjects...
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... As Table 4 shows, 60 out of 109 players A report to be negatively affected by learning their opponent's endowment. ...
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... We observe that as subjects' endowments increase there are significantly more people reporting negative interdependent preferences (see Table 4). Spearman Rank Correlation tests and Partial Least Square (PLS) regressions reveal that absolute difference and subjects' endowments have a significant impact on interdependent preferences. ...
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... Çalışanların kıskançlık duygusu arttıkça, iş yeri sapma davranışı sergileme eğilimleri de artmaktadır (Aydın-Küçük ve Taştan, 2019). İş çıktılarının yanı sıra iş yeri kıskançlığı; sahtekarlık (Dineen ve diğ, 2017), etik dışı davranış (Thiel ve diğ., 2020) ve kendine zarar verme (Celse, 2009) gibi sonuçlar da doğurabilmektedir. ...
... (Celse 2017, Wobker 2015, and reducing directing help toward envied others and the organization (Kim et al. 2010, Koopman et al. 2020). Research has also examined envy's link with destructive-disengaged behaviors, including resumé fraud (Dineen et al. 2017), unethical behaviors (Gino & Pierce 2009, Thiel et al. 2020, social loafing (Duffy & Shaw 2000), and even self-harm (Celse 2009, Zizzo & Oswald 2001. We encourage researchers to continue to expand the scope of envy's destructive outcomes. ...
In the past 20 years, there has been a growing interest in the phenomenon of workplace envy. This article provides an overarching review and analysis of the workplace envy literature. We first consider conceptual and measurement challenges facing envy researchers. We then review the current knowledge base in the research with a focus on synthesizing what we have learned regarding workplace envy's transmutations, highlighting directions for future research. We explore two relatively understudied areas in the envy literature—antecedents of envy and the experience of being envied. We discuss methodologies used in the literature to study envy and outcomes and conclude with a focus on cross-cultural and practical implications.
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... On the other hand, information provision can generate an opposite effect: realising one's relative inferiority provokes a significant decline in satisfaction, effort and cooperation levels (Bault et al. 2008;Cohn et al. 2011;Gächter and Thöni 2010;Miles and Rossi 2007). A decline in satisfaction can potentially generate severe dramatic consequences: unhappy individuals are willing to sacrifice own resources to prevent others from being above them (Celse 2009;Charness and Grosskopf 2001). A better understanding of the determinants of individual satisfaction can help managers to cope with the negative consequences of information provision. ...
Whereas recent evidences suggest absolute inequalities (i.e. inequalities between agents’ income measured in absolute terms) and relative inequalities (i.e. inequalities captured by the ratio between agents’ income) to have different cognitive implications, econometric models consider both measures as interchangeable when referring to individual satisfaction. Do income inequalities measured both on relative and absolute terms lead to the same effect on individual satisfaction? We implement an experimental protocol so as to investigate the impact of income inequalities on individual satisfaction. By implementing different treatments, we disentangle the impact of absolute income inequalities from the impact of relative income inequalities on individual satisfaction. We observe that individual satisfaction is significantly and negatively correlated to absolute income inequalities. Relative inequalities seem to have no effect on individual satisfaction.
... One-third of the losers chose to act spitefully and reduce the other players' balances. In a similar experiment by Celse (2009), participants with different levels of endowment could reduce the other players' payoff at own cost. Of the participants with a lower endowment than their opponents (equal to the losers in this experiment), 31.9% ...
When receiving less resources than a competitor, envy may be evoked that may result in spiteful behavior. This paper applies evolutionary theory to understand envy and its outcomes. A theoretical framework is developed that is based on the cause–effect relationships of unequal outcomes, envy, defection of cooperation, and welfare loss. To test this framework, an experiment with 136 participants is run. The results confirm that receiving less than another can indeed lead to experiences of envy and defection of future cooperation, producing a welfare loss of one-sixth. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
... About one third of the losers behaved destructively towards the winners. This pattern is consistent with findings in a similar experiment conducted in France by Celse (2009). In the Celse study, participants with different levels of endowment could reduce the other player's payoff at his or her own cost. ...
... In the Celse study, participants with different levels of endowment could reduce the other player's payoff at his or her own cost. In that study, 32.11% of the participants with a lower endowment than their opposing players reduced at a personal cost (Celse (2009)). Two thirds of the players did not reduce the other player's balances, even though some had high scores on the drivers of destructive envy behavior. ...
... The self-interest hypothesis suggests that people are motivated by their own utility level. There is plenty of experimental or empirical evidence to suggest that individual preferences are not disconnected from the utility of others in either a positive (fairness, altruism) or a negative way (envy, jealousy) (SOLNICK and HEMENWAY, 1998;ZIZZO and OSWALD, 2001;BECKMAN et al., 2002;BAULT et al., 2008;ABBINK et al., 2009;CELSE, 2009). Scholars incorporate both effects in the concept of interdependent preferences. ...
... This aversion is strongly influenced by social proximity (FEHR and 5 An "insider group" can be defined as "a group pursuing non-controversial aims through bargaining between officers and public servants and adhering to 'rules' of bargained incrementalism" (GRANT and DARREN, 2003). Negative interdependent preferences (inequity aversion, envy) may incite agents to undertake actions that reduce others people's income even if those actions are costly (CELSE, 2009). Thus farmers might be more active in resisting an environmental policy if it seems to them to be inequitable. ...
The objective of this paper is to compare the "relative" and the "absolute" impact on farmers' income of several economic instruments which may be implemented to mitigate farmers' groundwater withdrawals in a multi-resource system. We conducted fine-tuned field work with farmers in order to understand the key factors of substitution between underground and surface water at the farm level. A mixed integer linear programming framework has been used to model fruit and vegetable production systems and to infer the impact of instruments on farmers' income. Assuming this impact will sharply influence the acceptability of the instruments by the agricultural sector, we demonstrate why farmers' acceptance is of central concern for both the design and the implementation of an environmental policy. We further assessed the potential financial transfers that could be undertaken to increase acceptability. Our results echo scholars' doubts about the capacity of taxes to manage irrigation water use. We suggest that a policy relying on a "well-priced" substitutable resource would be greatly favoured by farmers and potentially by policy makers, since it will sharply decrease the transaction costs arising from the implementation of the instrument.
Although economic research acknowledges the powerful influence of envy, little is known about what drives destructive envy behavior. We address this gap by using evolutionary theory as a framework to better understand destructive envy behavior and to link it to psychological drivers. We use an experiment in which subjects participated in a lottery intended to evoke envy in the losers. Participants were subsequently offered the possibility of paying to reduce the other participant’s balance. The results make it possible for us to identify the most influential drivers of destructive envy behavior, and enable discussion of implications of such behavior for economics.
