TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lübbecke, Silvia
AU  - Schnedler, Wendelin
        TI  - Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship
        PY  - 2019/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12828
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12828
        AB  - Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem – although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information available to the interfering party (paternalist). Subjects do not resist to show to the paternalist that they were able to find the correct solution. Instead, two motives seem to play a role. First, subjects prefer to have produced or 'authored' the solution themselves. Second, subjects desire to signal their authorship and hence their independence to the paternalist. 
        KW  - selfdetermination
KW  - paternalism
KW  - competence
KW  - autonomy
KW  - image concerns
KW  - self-esteem
KW  - preference for authorship
        ER  -