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(The instructions are presented below once more for your convenience. After the next round the instructions will no longer be presented. The next round will not be a practice round anymore, i.e. your points from the next round and all rounds that follow may determine your bonus payments.)
That was practice round 1. There is another practice round, after which you will start the actual rounds. You can revise the instructions below.
{{ endif }}The Decision task consists of {{ rounds }} rounds. On each round you are presented with {{ C.BOXES }} boxes. See below what these boxes look like.
Your task is to start opening the boxes one by one. Each box is either a gain box or a loss box. Gain boxes increase your points for that round, whereas loss boxes decrease your points. Most boxes are gain boxes and there are only a few loss boxes.
😀 gain box
😨 loss box
Below you will see an example of boxes that are all opened. The loss boxes are randomly allocated among all the boxes.
At the start of the round, you will not see the contents of any of the boxes. You will only know whether a box is a gain box or a loss box once you open it.
Your task is to open as many boxes as you wish, keeping in mind that any box you open may be a loss box. The loss boxes are randomly located within all the boxes, and the location of the loss boxes changes from round to another. There can be one, two, or three loss boxes within the gain boxes.
You open boxes by swiping left and stop opening by swiping right.
You can stop opening the boxes at any time within a round. If you open a loss box, the round ends.
Gain boxes give you different amounts of points. On each round, the gain boxes can contain 10, 20, or 30 points. If you open, say, five gain boxes that are 20 points each, that means your gains for that round are 100 points.
Loss boxes mean the amount of points you can lose from your collected gains points within a round. On each round, the loss boxes can be valued 250, 500, or 750 points, meaning e.g. that you may lose up to 250 points if you open a loss box with value 250 points.
The best way to be successful in this task is to open as many gain boxes as you can but stop (swipe right) before opening loss boxes.
Example: If you have opened 6 gain boxes that are 20 points each, then your gains are 120 points, but if you then open a loss box of any loss value after these 6 gain boxes, all your gained points will be taken away. On the other hand, if you have opened 20 gain boxes that are 20 points each, your gains will be 400 points and then opening a loss box of 250 points will leave you with 150 total points for that round.
When you have completed all parts of the study, two rounds are randomly chosen that determine your monetary bonus payments, and summed up. These points are then divided by 100 to indicate your reward in GBP.
The first two rounds are practice rounds and will not count towards your final reward.
The next page and each page before each new round will provide details regarding that round.
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In this game you collect ice cream 🍦 by opening boxes. There are {{ C.BOXES }} boxes and you should aim to open as many as you can.
Beware! Some boxes have birds 🐦 in them and if you open one of these boxes, the bird will eat all your ice cream! There may be birds hiding in any of the boxes, and the number of birds changes from round to another (one, two or three birds).
You open the boxes one by one and can stop opening whenever you want. Try to see how many ice creams you manage to collect.