Erik Wengström
Professor, Director of Doctoral studies, Department of Economics
Framing and Misperception in Public Good Experiments
Author
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