Framing and Feedback in Social Dilemmas with Partners and Strangers

We study framing effects in repeated social dilemmas by comparing payoff-equivalent Give- and Take-framed public goods games under varying matching mechanisms (Partners or Strangers) and levels of feedback (Aggregate or Individual). In the Give-framed game, players contribute to a public good, while in the Take-framed game, players take from an existing public good. The results show Take framing and Individual-level feedback lead to more extreme behavior (free-riding and full cooperation), especially for Partners. These results suggest Take framing and Individual-level feedback increase the variability of cooperation.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Games

• Publication date

  2015-09-25

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/g6040394
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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