Data and Code for: Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Luca Braghieri, Bocconi University
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Project Citation:
Braghieri, Luca. Data and Code for: Political Correctness, Social Image, and Information Transmission. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-11-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208243V1
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Summary:
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A prominent argument in the debate about political correctness is that people may feel pressure to publicly espouse views on a set of sensitive political topics that they may not privately hold, and that such misrepresentations may render public discourse less vibrant and informative. This paper provides a formalization of the argument in terms of social image and evaluates it experimentally in the context of college campuses, where the debate about political correctness has been particularly heated. The results of the experiment show that: i) social image concerns indeed drive a wedge between the sensitive political attitudes that college students report in private and in public; ii) public utterances are less informative than private utterances according to a host of canonical measures of informativeness; iii) information loss is exacerbated by (partial) audience naiveté.
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JEL Classification:
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C70 Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
D80 Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
D90 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General
C70 Game Theory and Bargaining Theory: General
D80 Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
D90 Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General
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