Radical framing effects in the ultimatum game: the impact of explicit culturally transmitted frames on economic decision-making.

ABSTRACT: Many studies have documented framing effects in economic games. These studies, however, have tended to use minimal framing cues (e.g. a single sentence labelling the frame), and the frames did not involve unambiguous offer expectations. Results often did not differ substantially from those in the unframed games. Here we test the hypothesis that, in contrast to the modal offer in the unframed ultimatum game (UG) (e.g. 60% to the proposer and 40% to the responder), offers in a UG explicitly framed either as a currency exchange or a windfall will closely conform to expectations for the frame and diverge substantially from the modal offer. Participants recruited from MTurk were randomized into one of two conditions. In the control condition, participants played a standard UG. In the treatment

SUBMITTER: Lightner AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5749986 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature