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This study takes place in two parts. The first part of the study examines peoples' decisions about monetary payments received by other people. For this, we have designed a series of choices of payment schedules that will be received by other people.
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You will be presented with a pair of payment schedules and asked which of the schedules you would rather be given to two other participants, known to you as 'player 1' and 'player 2'. These two other participants have just been chosen at random from the participants in the session, before any decisions have been made. While these groupings are random, no one will be making decisions for a participant who is also making decisions for them. You will make decisions for the same pair of participants in each choice, but either participant could be player 1 or player 2 for a given choice.
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After you have made all of your decisions for part 1, one of your choices will be selected at random and become your decision-that-counts for part 1--there is a 50 percent chance that your decision-that-counts for part 1 will be paid to other participants and a 50 percent chance that your decision-that-counts will for part 1 will not be paid to anyone (this is because each of you is making decisions for two other participants, which means that you are having decisions made for you by two other people. Rather than paying both of these decisions, only one of these decisions is paid. We will will explain this in more detail below). After you have made all of your decisions for part 1, and when prompted to by the computer, you will then flip over the card in front of you. This card contains three pieces of information. First, each card has a dedicated space for you to write the decision-that-counts from part 1. Second, each card lists which other participants (identified by ID number) you made decisions for and who labelled as 'player 1' and who was 'player 2' in the decision-that-counts. This means you will learn which participants you made decisions for only after you have made all of your decisions, and at no point will any participant learn who made decisions for them (we include the ID numbers only so that we can re-distribute the cards appropriately). Third, each of these cards has either HEADS or TAILS written on the second line. These designations have been randomly assigned to the cards, but have been done in such a way that there is exactly one HEADS card with each participant ID number and exactly one TAILS card with each participant ID number.
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You will record your decision-that-counts in the dedicated space on the card. The experimenters will then collect all of the cards, sort them into the HEADS group and the TAILS group, and then flip a coin. The experimenters will then distribute the cards from the group chosen by the coin flip to the participants listed on them, and the decision-that-counts listed on them will be that participant's payment for part 1. The decisions listed on cards from the other group will not be paid to anyone.
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The payment schedule from the decision-that-counts listed on a participant’s card will be their payment from part 1. This means that there is a 50 percent chance that your decision-that-counts from part 1 will be paid to two other participants in this session and a 50 percent chance that your decision-that-counts from part 1 will not be paid to anyone. As such, it is in your best interest to truthfully state which option you would rather be distributed to the other participants in each choice, since that decision could be paid to other participants. Each participant will receive exactly one card, and therefore each of you will receive exactly one payment schedule from the decision-that-counts in part 1. The purpose of these cards is to ensure that each participant leaves the experiment knowing their payment schedules.
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     Your total payment for the study consists of three components: your payment from part 1 (described above), your payment from your part 2 (described later), and your show-up payment of $10.
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    If you have questions at any point during the experiment, please raise your hand and one of the experimenters will come by and assist you. Once you have read and understood these instructions, please click next to proceed to an example to improve your understanding of the experiment.
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