eprintid: 17748
rev_number: 18
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/01/77/48
datestamp: 2014-12-02 15:50:19
lastmod: 2015-04-25 06:11:18
status_changed: 2014-12-02 15:50:19
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name:  Lohse, Johannes
title: Smart or Selfish - When Smart Guys Finish Nice
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
keywords: Cooperation, Cognitive Abilities, Confusion, Public Goods, Dual Process Theories.
abstract: In three different variants of an one-shot public good game I analyze the relationship between cooperation and cognitive abilities, assessed through the cognitive reflection test (CRT). In a between-subjects design, the baseline case is contrasted with two treatment conditions that allow to control for two potentially moderating factors: By employing a test for the presence of confusion, the first condition scrutinizes whether higher cognitive abilities are correlated with cooperation proper or simply grant a better understanding of the incentive structure. The second condition explores the proposition that the link between cognitive abilities and cooperation could depend on the complexity of the decision situation. To exogenously create a cognitively more demanding choice setting, subjects had to decide under time pressure. I find a strong and positive relationship between CRT-scores and cooperation, that is not driven by confusion. Time pressure has a strongly moderating effect on this relationship.
date: 2014-11
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00017748
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0578
ppn_swb: 1653816953
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-177482
language: eng
bibsort: LOHSEJOHANSMARTORSEL201411
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0578
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 16
citation:    Lohse, Johannes  (2014) Smart or Selfish - When Smart Guys Finish Nice.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/17748/1/Lohse_2014_dp578.pdf