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Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games

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Carpenter, Jeffrey
Burks, Stephen
Verhoogen, Eric

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To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in 'social framing.' Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC), and employees at a Kansas City distribution center. Ultimatum game offers are ordered: KCKCC > employee > Middlebury. In the Dictator game employees are more generous than students in either location. This indicates that workers behaved distinctly from both student groups because their allocations do not decrease between games, an effect we attribute to the social framing of the workplace.

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Spiel Fairness Reziprozität Experiment Student Arbeiter Spiel Fairness Reziprozität Experiment Student Arbeiter Ultimatum game Dictator game fairness reciprocity field experiment

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2004

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Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor: IZA Discussion Paper Series;1341

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  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Carpenter, Jeffrey
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Burks, Stephen
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Verhoogen, Eric
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-11-17T11:02:29Z
  • Made available on
    2008-06-30
  • Made available on
    2015-12-01T10:32:15Z
  • Made available on
    2022-11-17T11:02:29Z
  • Date of first publication
    2004
  • Abstract / Description
    To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in 'social framing.' Our participants are students at Middlebury College, non-traditional students at Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC), and employees at a Kansas City distribution center. Ultimatum game offers are ordered: KCKCC > employee > Middlebury. In the Dictator game employees are more generous than students in either location. This indicates that workers behaved distinctly from both student groups because their allocations do not decrease between games, an effect we attribute to the social framing of the workplace.
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  • Persistent Identifier
    https://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-16728
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/1143
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8943
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Is part of
    IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 1341
  • Is part of series
    Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor: IZA Discussion Paper Series;1341
  • Keyword(s)
    Spiel
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  • Keyword(s)
    Fairness
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  • Keyword(s)
    Reziprozität
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  • Keyword(s)
    Experiment
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  • Keyword(s)
    Student
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  • Keyword(s)
    Arbeiter
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  • Keyword(s)
    Spiel
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  • Keyword(s)
    Fairness
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  • Keyword(s)
    Reziprozität
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  • Keyword(s)
    Experiment
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  • Keyword(s)
    Student
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  • Keyword(s)
    Arbeiter
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  • Keyword(s)
    Ultimatum game
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  • Keyword(s)
    Dictator game
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  • Keyword(s)
    fairness
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  • Keyword(s)
    reciprocity
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  • Keyword(s)
    field experiment
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games
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  • DRO type
    report
  • Visible tag(s)
    PsyDok