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Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns
The popularity of social media has increased users’ social visibility. However, users’ limited ability to control information spread could compromise privacy. People care about how others perceive them. We examined people’s concerns for others’ evaluations on their behaviors under different degrees...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32339179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232037 |
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author | Riyanto, Yohanes E. Zhang, Jianlin |
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description | The popularity of social media has increased users’ social visibility. However, users’ limited ability to control information spread could compromise privacy. People care about how others perceive them. We examined people’s concerns for others’ evaluations on their behaviors under different degrees of privacy conditions. Using a variant of the dictator game, we induced dictators to self-select into pro-self or pro-social types and asked recipients to give written evaluations of the dictators. We varied the degree of personal information privacy by making the written content known to the corresponding dictators only, all dictators, or either of them with equal chance. Also, the dictators could avoid receiving the message at a price. We showed that pro-self dictators’ willingness to pay to conceal messages decreased when information privacy diminished. Thus, results indicated that image concerns wane in an environment where information privacy is weak. Our results contribute to understanding of the privacy paradox. |
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spelling | pubmed-71857032020-05-06 Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns Riyanto, Yohanes E. Zhang, Jianlin PLoS One Research Article The popularity of social media has increased users’ social visibility. However, users’ limited ability to control information spread could compromise privacy. People care about how others perceive them. We examined people’s concerns for others’ evaluations on their behaviors under different degrees of privacy conditions. Using a variant of the dictator game, we induced dictators to self-select into pro-self or pro-social types and asked recipients to give written evaluations of the dictators. We varied the degree of personal information privacy by making the written content known to the corresponding dictators only, all dictators, or either of them with equal chance. Also, the dictators could avoid receiving the message at a price. We showed that pro-self dictators’ willingness to pay to conceal messages decreased when information privacy diminished. Thus, results indicated that image concerns wane in an environment where information privacy is weak. Our results contribute to understanding of the privacy paradox. Public Library of Science 2020-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7185703/ /pubmed/32339179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232037 Text en © 2020 Riyanto, Zhang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Riyanto, Yohanes E. Zhang, Jianlin Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns |
title | Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns |
title_full | Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns |
title_fullStr | Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns |
title_full_unstemmed | Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns |
title_short | Diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns |
title_sort | diminishing personal information privacy weakens image concerns |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32339179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232037 |
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