What does “clean” really mean? The implicit framing of decontextualized experiments |
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| Authors: | Christoph Engel David G Rand |
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| Institution: | 1. Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, 2 Hillhouse Ave, Yale University, New Haven CT 06511, United States;3. Department of Economics, 2 Hillhouse Ave, Yale University, New Haven CT 06511, United States |
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| Abstract: | It is standard in experimental economics to use decontextualized designs where payoff structures are presented using neutral language. Here we show that cooperation in such a neutrally framed Prisoner’s Dilemma is equivalent to a PD framed as contributing to a cooperative endeavour. Conversely, there is substantially less cooperation in a PD framed as a competition. We conclude that in a decontextualized context, our participants by default project a cooperative frame onto the payoff structure. |
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| Keywords: | C70 C91 D62 D64 D80 H41 |
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