You are now ready to begin the decision tasks. Before you start, please read the following instructions carefully — they explain exactly how you will make your decisions.
In each decision situation, you will see two options displayed side by side — one on the left and one on the right. Below each option, you will see a row of person icons representing how many out of 10 people from an earlier group chose that option. While these are hypothetical splits, you should make your decisions as if this was what the people from the earlier group actually chose.
In both tasks we are interested in how your choice may depend on the others' choices. To do so, we ask you to indicate your personal threshold: the minimum number of people from the earlier group who would need to have chosen the left option for you to also choose the left option.
You will set your threshold using a slider below the two options, ranging from 0 to 10. As you move the slider, the person icons will update automatically to show the corresponding split.
Your final decision therefore depends on your personal threshold and the actual choices made by the other participants. Specifically, the experiment will check your threshold against the actual choices of the earlier group: if the number of people who chose the left option meets or exceeds your threshold, your final decision will be the left option — otherwise it will be the right option.
Example: If your slider is set to 4, this means: "I would choose the left option if at least 4 out of 10 people from the earlier group chose it. If fewer than 4 chose it, I would choose the right option."
There are no right or wrong answers. Please respond according to your genuine preferences.
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In each decision situation, you will see two options displayed side by side — one on the left and one on the right. Below each option, you will see a row of person icons representing hypothetical choices from an earlier group. You should make your decisions as if this was what the people from the earlier group actually chose.
In both tasks we are interested in how your choice may depend on the others' choices. For each decision situation, you will make a series of choices. Each choice presents the same two options, but the number of people from the earlier group shown choosing each option will change between choices.
Based on your choices, the experiment will identify your personal threshold: the minimum number of people from the earlier group who would need to have chosen the left option for you to also choose the left option. The series of choices ends automatically once your threshold is clearly established, and you will then move on to the next decision situation.
Your final decision therefore depends on your personal threshold and the actual choices made by the other participants. Specifically, the experiment will check your threshold against the actual choices of the earlier group: if the number of people who chose the left option meets or exceeds your threshold, your final decision will be the left option — otherwise it will be the right option.
Important: Please make each choice based on what you would genuinely do given the number of people shown. There are no right or wrong answers.
You are now ready to begin the decision tasks. Before you start, please read the following instructions carefully — they explain exactly how you will make your decisions.
In each decision situation, you will see two options displayed side by side — one on the left and one on the right. Below each option, you will see a row of person icons representing hypothetical choices from an earlier group. You should make your decisions as if this was what the people from the earlier group actually chose.
In both tasks we are interested in how your choice may depend on the others' choices. For each decision situation, you will make a series of choices. Each choice presents the same two options, but the number of people from the earlier group shown choosing each option will change between choices. You will need to decide which option you want to pick if the presented choices are the real choices that the other participants made.
Your final decision depends on the actual choices made by the other participants. The experiment will look up the choice you made for the split that matches what the other participants actually chose, and that will be your final decision. This means that while the person icons here represent hypothetical splits, you should always make your choices as if this was what the others actually chose.
For each of the 11 presentations, simply click the option you would choose if the number of people shown below each option actually picked that option. After you have responded to all presentations for a situation, you will automatically move on to the next one.
Important: Please make each choice based on what you would genuinely do given the split shown. You may choose the same option across all 11 presentations, or switch between options at some point — whatever reflects your honest preferences. There are no right or wrong answers.