Causal effects of sharing goals on sharing likelihood
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Next, we tested whether the manipulation causally impacted self-reported sharing likelihood and perceived benefits of sharing (see Hypothesis 3.1 a–c in The condition effects on ratings. Error bars represent standard errors. Significance indicators are based on the regression models reported in Condition effects on communicator ratings [B (SE), To further investigate the unexpected effects of the ‘Describe Yourself’ condition, , we ran an exploratory trial-wise, multilevel regression analysis to test potential indirect effects of condition (‘Describe Yourself’ > ‘Spread Information’) on sharing ratings entering the three ROIs as mediators. All three indirect effects were positive and statistically significant, suggesting that there are two mechanisms that explain the association between ‘Describe Yourself’ instructions (