Social framing effects: Preferences or beliefs?

• Published in: Games and economic behavior Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 117 - 130
• Main Authors: Ellingsen, Tore, Johannesson, Magnus, Mollerstrom, Johanna, Munkhammar, Sara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Duluth Elsevier Inc 01.09.2012; Elsevier; Academic Press
• Subjects: Behavior; Belief & doubt; Beliefs; Cooperation; Economic behaviour; Framing; Game theory; Hypotheses; Hypothesis; Labels; Preferences; Prisoner's dilemma; Social preferences; Stock exchange; Studies; Labels; A13; Framing; C92; D03; Social preferences

In an otherwise neutrally described Prisonersʼ dilemma experiment, we document that behavior is more likely to be cooperative when the game is called the Community Game than when it is called the Stock Market Game. However, the difference vanishes when only one of the subjects is in control of her a...