Self-signaling models predict less selfish behavior in a probabilistic giving setting as individuals are expected to invest pro-social identity. However, there is also substantial evidence that people tend exploit situational excuses for choices (for instance, uncertainty) and behave more selfishly. We contrast these two motivations (identity management self-deception) experimentally order test...

The Multiple Sclerosis Journal’s (MSJ) open access companion, Multiple Sclerosis JournalExperimental, Translational and Clinical (MSJETC), reached its one-year anniversary in January 2016. MSJ-ETC was launched because of the steadily increasing activity of MSJ and its inability to publish all of the high quality, interesting manuscripts that were received. MSJ-ETC also allowed us the opportunit...