Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play
Author-Name: Heike Hennig-Schmidt
Author-Email: hschmidt@uni-bonn.de
Classification-JEL: C91, C72, D64, Z13
Keywords: Framing, psychological games, guilt aversion, reciprocity, public good games, voluntary cooperation
Abstract: Psychological game theory can help provide a rational
	choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence
	beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this
	theoretically, and explore the empirical relevance
	experimentally. In a 2×2 design of one-shot public good
	games we show that frames affect subject’s first- and
	second-order beliefs, and contributions. From a	
	psychological game-theoretic framework we derive two
	mutually compatible hypotheses about guilt aversion and
	reciprocity under which contributions are related to
	second- and first-order beliefs, respectively. Our
	results are consistent with either.
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Length: 40
Creation-Date: 2008-07
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File-URL: http://www.wiwi.uni-bonn.de/bgsepapers/bonedp/bgse15_2008.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse15_2008