Arbeitspapier

The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play

Psychological game theory can help provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically, and explore the empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2 design of one-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject’s first- and second-order beliefs, and contributions. From a psychological game-theoretic framework we derive two mutually compatible hypotheses about guilt aversion and reciprocity under which contributions are related to second- and first-order beliefs, respectively. Our results are consistent with either.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bonn Econ Discussion Papers ; No. 15/2008

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Noncooperative Games
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Thema
Framing
psychological games
guilt aversion
reciprocity
public good games
voluntary cooperation
Spieltheorie
Öffentliches Gut
Framing
Psychologie
Reziprozität
Trittbrettfahrerverhalten
Test

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dufwenberg, Martin
Gächter, Simon
Henning-Schmidt, Heike
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dufwenberg, Martin
  • Gächter, Simon
  • Henning-Schmidt, Heike
  • University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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