• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Lab-sophistication : does repeated participation in laboratory experiments affect pro-social behaviour?
  • Beteiligte: Medda, Tiziana [Verfasser:in]; Pelligra, Vittorio [Verfasser:in]; Reggiani, Tommaso [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Cardiff, United Kingdom: Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, February 2021
  • Erschienen in: Cardiff economics working papers ; 2021,3
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 19 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Sprache: Englisch
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  • Schlagwörter: Lab-sophistication ; Experimental Methodology ; External Validity ; Pro-social behaviour ; Cooperation ; Graue Literatur
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  • Beschreibung: 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 behavioral 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 sub-jects 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.
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