Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: The Framing of Games and the Psychology of Play 
Author-Name: Martin Dufwenberg
Author-Email: martind@eller.arizona.edu
Author-Name: Simon Gaechter
Author-Email: simon.gaechter@nottingham.ac.uk
Author-Name: Heike Hennig-Schmidt
Author-Email: hscmidt@uni-bonn.de
Classification-JEL: C91, C72, D64, Z13
Keywords: framing, psychological game theory, guilt aversion, reciprocity, 
	public good games, voluntary cooperation
Abstract: 	Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing 
	effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs influence motivations. We explain
	this theoretically and explore 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 
	gametheoretic 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: 41
Creation-Date: 2010-09
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File-URL: http://www.wiwi.uni-bonn.de/bgsepapers/bonedp/bgse15_2010.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse15_2010