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Narayan, Somendra Prosocial Appetite and Identity Signaling: Crowdfunding Behavioural Experiment Dataset Mendeley Data The dataset comprises evidence from three sequential randomized experiments conducted with a total of 901 U.S.-based participants who all had prior investment experience, ensuring relevance to real-world crowdfunding decision-making. Study 1 (n = 199) employed a 2×2 design manipulating entrepreneur sexual identity (LGBTQ vs. control) and investor political ideology (liberal vs. conservative). Study 2 (n = 252) replicated the identity manipulation with a new product context and used a continuous, multi-item measure of ideology (SECS). Study 3 (n = 450) added a second experimental factor—venture type (commercial vs. prosocial)—resulting in a 2×2 design with political ideology measured. Across all studies, participants evaluated a standardized crowdfunding pitch and provided judgments on organizational legitimacy, investment likelihood, and theoretically relevant controls. Each study includes harmonized variables enabling both within-study and cross-study comparison. Key variables include manipulated identity cues, prosocial framing, political ideology, perceived legitimacy (measured through well-established scales), and investment likelihood using an incentive-compatible method. Additional controls include trust, attitude toward the entrepreneur, identification, and underdog perceptions. The dataset therefore captures a robust set of cognitive, evaluative, and attitudinal responses, allowing for rigorous testing of the proposed mechanisms—particularly the conditional and interactive effects underlying prosocial appetite depletion. Behavioral Experiment Datta, Subhadeep Mukherjee, Sourjo Dataset doi:10.17632/gdznxtx67p.1 oai:data.mendeley.com/gdznxtx67p.1 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/gdznxtx67p 2025-11-14T18:48:24Z