Cooperation: The Power of a single word? Some experimental evidence on wording and gender effects in a game of chicken

Marie-Laure Cabon-Dhersin and Nathalie Etchart-Vincent ()

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Abstract: Framing has been widely shown to affect decision making. In this paper, we investigate experimentally whether, and to what extent, cooperative behaviour in a Game of Chicken may be impacted by a very basic change in the labelling of the strategies. Our within-subject experimental design involves two treatments. The only difference between them is that we introduce either a socially-oriented wording (I cooperate/I do not cooperate) or colours (red/blue) to designate strategies. The level of cooperation appears to be higher in the socially-oriented context, but only when uncertainty as regards the type of the partner is manipulated, and especially among females.

Keywords: cooperation; Game of Chicken; gender effects; label framing effects; social dilemma; wording effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01-01
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Published in Bulletin of Economic Research, 2013, 65 (1), pp.43-64. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-8586.2012.00468.x⟩

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Journal Article: COOPERATION: THE POWER OF A SINGLE WORD? SOME EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON WORDING AND GENDER EFFECTS IN A GAME OF CHICKEN (2013)
Working Paper: Cooperation: The Power of a single word? Some experimental evidence on wording and gender effects in a game of chicken (2013)
Working Paper: Cooperation: the power of a single word? Some experimental evidence on wording and gender effects in a Game of Chicken (2011)
Working Paper: Cooperation: the power of a single word? Some experimental evidence on wording and gender effects in a Game of Chicken (2011)
Working Paper: Cooperation, the power of a single word. Some experimental evidence on wording and gender effects in a Game of Chicken (2010)
Working Paper: Cooperation, the power of a single word. Some experimental evidence on wording and gender effects in a Game of Chicken (2010)
Working Paper: Cooperation, the power of a single word. Some experimental evidence on wording and gender effects in a Game of Chicken (2010)
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8586.2012.00468.x

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