Exploring the role of deliberation time in non-selfish behaviour: the Double Response method

Marta Dyrkacz () and Michal Krawczyk
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Marta Dyrkacz: Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
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No 2015-27, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: In this paper we introduce an innovative research method called Double Response under which subjects are incentivised to provide a quick, intuitive choice and additionally one based on longer deliberation. We apply the method to a series of simple decision tasks aimed at eliciting subjects’ social preferences (as in Charness and Rabin, 2002). Our method appears to successfully induce very quick responses. We find that although only 9.9% of initial choices are changed after deliberation, 79.4% of subjects change at least one of their choices. Comparing contents of the decisions we observe that time pressure leads to more negative attitude towards another individual’s earnings when they are higher than those of the decision maker. In other words, with deliberation decisions are typically updated towards lesser aversion to disadvantageous inequality (“envy”).

Keywords: response time; design of laboratory experiments; other-regarding preference; inequality aversion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C92 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2015
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