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• TITLE: An Experimental Comparison between Self- and Third-Party Evaluations

  AUTHORS: Takehisa Kumakawa

  KEYWORDS: Self-Evaluation, Third-Party Evaluation, Self-Serving Bias

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.5 No.4, July 21, 2015

  ABSTRACT: How to pick up the true meaning of messages exchanged in the laboratory is an important issue for experimental research. The present study investigates, by experimentally comparing self- and third-party evaluations, to what extent self-evaluations by message receivers can be relied on. After standard public-good game, subjects receive a free-form written message evaluating their decision and self-evaluate its content from their counterparts. Third-party evaluators also evaluate the content independently. A comparison between both evaluations shows that a significant proportion of them agree. Firm evidence of a self-serving bias cannot be found.