Lab-Sophistication: Does Repeated Participation in Laboratory
Experiments Affect Pro-Social Behaviour?

J 2021

Lab-Sophistication: Does Repeated Participation in Laboratory Experiments Affect Pro-Social Behaviour?

MEDDA, Tiziana; Vittorio PELLIGRA a Tommaso REGGIANI

Základní údaje

Originální název

Lab-Sophistication: Does Repeated Participation in Laboratory Experiments Affect Pro-Social Behaviour?

Autoři

MEDDA, Tiziana; Vittorio PELLIGRA a Tommaso REGGIANI

Vydání

GAMES, Switzerland, MDPI, 2021, 2073-4336

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50202 Applied Economics, Econometrics

Stát vydavatele

Švýcarsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14560/21:00121167

Organizační jednotka

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

lab-sophistication; experimental methodology; external validity; pro-social behaviour; cooperation

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 14. 10. 2022 11:00, Mgr. Pavlína Kurková

Anotace

V originále

Experimental social scientists working at research-intensive institutions deal inevitably with subjects who have most likely participated in previous experiments. It is an important methodological question to know whether participants that have acquired a high level of lab-sophistication show altered pro-social behavioural patterns. In this paper, we focus both on the potential effect of the subjects’ lab-sophistication, and on the role of the knowledge about the level of lab-sophistication of the other participants. Our main findings show that while lab-sophistication per se does not significantly affect pro-social behaviour, for sophisticated subjects the knowledge about the counterpart’s level of (un)sophistication may systematically alter their choices. This result should induce caution among experimenters about whether, in their settings, information about lab-sophistication can be inferred by the participants, due to the characteristics of the recruitment mechanisms, the management of the experimental sessions or to other contextual clues.

Návaznosti

MUNI/G/0985/2017, interní kód MU

Název: Economic Decision-Making: Hormonal Determinants and Ritualized Behavior

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Economic Decision-Making: Hormonal Determinants and Ritualized Behavior, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Mezioborové výzkumné projekty

Přiložené soubory

games-12-00018.pdf

Požádat o autorskou verzi souboru

games_repeated_participation.pdf

Citovat

MEDDA, Tiziana; Vittorio PELLIGRA a Tommaso REGGIANI. Lab-Sophistication: Does Repeated Participation in Laboratory Experiments Affect Pro-Social Behaviour? GAMES. Switzerland: MDPI, 2021, roč. 12, č. 1, s. 1-14. ISSN 2073-4336. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.3390/g12010018.

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MEDDA, Tiziana; Vittorio PELLIGRA a Tommaso REGGIANI. Lab-Sophistication: Does Repeated Participation in Laboratory Experiments Affect Pro-Social Behaviour? \textit{GAMES}. Switzerland: MDPI, 2021, roč.~12, č.~1, s.~1-14. ISSN~2073-4336. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.3390/g12010018.

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