Thank you for choosing to participate in this study named „Decision Experiment“ by Paderborn University. The purpose of the study is to explore organizational behaviour, where you interact with another group member. Your responses in this study are completely anonymous and the data will be kept strictly confidential.

Overall, this study will take approximately 30 minutes .

This is an experimental study where you will be asked to complete simple tasks, make judgements, receive information, take decisions and answer questions. At the end, you will be asked to fill out a short questionnaire. We would like you to answer as honestly as possible. By doing so, you are making a great contribution to research.

For completing this study, you will receive a fixed payment of 4 GBP . You will also have the possibility to earn additional money. The exact amount of additional money depends on your decisions in the decision experiment. This additional money will be paid as a bonus and this bonus can amount to a maximum of additional 6 GBP . To be able to receive the bonus, please indicate your Prolific ID. The payment will be credited to your Prolific account a few days after the study. In case you leave the experiment in between (what you basically can at any time) you will receive no payment (please see the Prolific Terms).

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Please read all instructions carefully. Numerous attention checks (questions that will ask you to recall certain information) will be placed throughout the study to ensure the validity of your answers and decisions. A further prerequisite for this study is that you are currently employed and fluent in reading English. {{formfield 'Employed'}} {{formfield 'FluentEnglish'}} The next pages will display the instructions of the study (4 pages). It is important that you read the instructions carefully. You have 6 minutes to read the instructions. After this time, the experiment will start automatically.

Important! There is no deception in this study. Everything you see and read is true. This means that you will interact with other (real) Prolific participants and that all consequences that are indicated for the decisions in the study will be really implemented. You will be matched with other participants and it is therefore essential that you are at the computer for the entire duration of the study, as the experiment will not continue if you do not click. There may be short waiting times in between if other participants have not yet clicked on continue. Please remain patient in this case. Please always make sure that you click the buttons that you see on the screens (e.g., Next, ...).

Many regards,

Behnud Mir Djawadi, Sabrina Plaß & Sabrina Schäfers

Please click on "Start".