The Influence of Priming on Reference States
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experiment
2.1. Classroom experiment
2.2. Laboratory experiment
3. Background and Methodology
4. Results
4.1. Classroom experiment
4.2. Laboratory experiment
5. Discussion
Supplementary materials
Supplementary File 1Supplementary File 2Supplementary File 3Acknowledgements
Appendix A - Data
MAT | CONT | SOC | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
investment | mean | 3.84 | 3.48 | 3.23 |
median | 4 | 3.5 | 3 | |
minimum | mean | 7.9 | 5.48 | 5.86 |
median | 7.5 | 5 | 5 | |
risk premium | mean | -1.57 | 0.55 | 0.14 |
median | -0.5 | 0.58 | 0 | |
observations | 48 | 75 | 69 |
investment | minimum | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
coeff. | st.error | coeff. | st.error | |
CONT | -1.5392 | .5853*** | -3.2880 | 1.2146*** |
SOC | -1.6858 | .6071*** | -2.5295 | 1.2820** |
Age | .1038 | .0541* | .0550808 | .1241 |
MAT*Female | -1.5207 | .6426** | -1.0795 | 1.4847 |
constant | 3.0392 | 1.3440** | 7.4171 | 2.9891** |
Appendix B - Instructions classroom experiment
1. Sorting of groups of words
investment | minimum | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
coeff. | st.error | coeff. | st.error | |
CONT | -.1782 | .3130 | -1.2627 | .8109 |
SOC | -.0594 | .2812 | -1.0286 | .5902* |
Decision time | .0444 | .0224* | .0417 | .0313 |
Female | -.5970 | .2650** | -.0413 | .5742 |
Difficulty | -.2768 | .1625* | -.4943 | .4036 |
constant | 3.1203 | .3434*** | 9.7308 | .9372*** |
Positive Affect | Negative Affect | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
coeff. | st.error | coeff. | st.error | |
CONT | -.5357 | 1.9678 | 1.5477 | 1.1102 |
SOC | -2.3266 | 1.9226 | 1.4733 | 1.1233 |
Profit | .4462 | .4939 | .8346 | .3114*** |
Coin | 1.9727 | 4.2697 | -8.3927 | 2.6503*** |
Female | -1.7753 | 1.6780 | -1.6157 | .9399* |
Difficulty | .2478 | .9214 | -.8164 | .6304 |
constant | 25.6926 | 2.6388*** | 11.308 | 1.5439*** |
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Sex: | o | female | o | male |
2. Game
After you state the amount you want to invest below, we collect the sheets. Then we randomly draw 25 numbers. For the sheets with these numbers we pay you according to your investment and the flip of the coin. We flip a coin separately for each of the 25 numbers. You can pick up your payoff immediately after the lecture, or at the secretaries office. |
[Here followed some technical remarks regarding the identification of sheets with subjects.] |
Appendix C - Instructions laboratory experiment
Instructions
Procedure
Part 1
Part 2
Example 1
Example 2
Payoff
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Chicago/Turabian StyleMatthey, Astrid. 2010. "The Influence of Priming on Reference States" Games 1, no. 1: 34-52. https://doi.org/10.3390/g1010034