TY  - UNPD
A1  - Detemple, Julian
T1  - Thoughts about the dictator and trust game
N2  - Experiments are an important tool in economic research. However, it is unclear to which extent the control of experiments extends to the perceptions subjects form of such experimental decision situations. This paper is the first to explicitly elicit perceptions of the dictator and trust game and shows that there is substantial heterogeneity in how subjects perceive the same game. Moreover, game perceptions depend not only on the game itself but also on the order of games (i.e., the broader experimental context in which the game is embedded) and the subject herself. This highlights that the control of experiments does not necessarily extend to game perceptions. The paper also demonstrates that perceptions are correlated with game behavior and moderate the relationship between game behavior and field behavior, thereby underscoring the importance and relevance of game perceptions for economic research.
T3  - SAFE working paper - 422 
KW  - dictator game
KW  - trust game
KW  - game perceptions
Y1  - 2024
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/71580
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-715806
UR  - https://ssrn.com/abstract=4857010
N1  - Funding: Joachim Herz foundation
N1  - Funding: Karl Schlecht foundation
N1  - Funding: SAFE Experiment Center at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research
PB  - SAFE
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -