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Portrait of Erik Wengström. Photo.

Erik Wengström

Professor, Director of Doctoral studies, Department of Economics

Portrait of Erik Wengström. Photo.

Framing and Misperception in Public Good Experiments

Author

  • Toke Reinholt Fosgaard
  • Lars Gårn Hansen
  • Erik Wengström

Summary, in English

Earlier studies have found that framing has a substantial impact on the degree of cooperation observed in public good experiments. We show that the way the public good game is framed affects misperceptions about the incentives of the game. Moreover, we show that such framing-induced differences in misperceptions are linked to the framing effect on subjects’ cooperation behavior. When we do not control for the different levels of misperceptions between frames, we observe a significant framing effect on subjects’ cooperation preferences. However, this framing effect becomes insignificant once we remove subjects who misperceive.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2017-04-01

Language

English

Pages

435-456

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volume

119

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Applied Psychology
  • Economics

Keywords

  • cooperation
  • experiment
  • framing
  • heterogeneous sample
  • misperception
  • social dilemma
  • C90
  • D03
  • H41

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-9442