eprintid: 22247
rev_number: 13
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/02/22/47
datestamp: 2016-11-25 11:01:07
lastmod: 2016-11-28 08:07:06
status_changed: 2016-11-25 11:01:07
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Goeschl, Timo
creators_name: Lohse, Johannes
title: Cooperation in Public Good Games. Calculated or Confused?
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
abstract: Recent experiments suggest that contribution decisions in a public goods game (PGG) are more likely to be cooperative if based on intuition rather than reflection. This paper (i) reinvestigates the behavioral impact of so-called cognitive style in the PGG; and (ii) connects it with an earlier literature on the role of cognitive failure (confusion). This is motivated by the possibility that the method of time pressure, commonly used to identify cognitive style, invites confusion as a confounding factor. Two channels for such confounds are identified and experimentally tested: A heterogeneous treatment effect of time pressure depending on subject's confusion status and a direct impact of time pressure on subjects' likelihood of being confused. Our reinvestigation on the behavioral impact of time pressure confirms that cognitive style matters, but that deliberation rather than intuition drives
cooperation. The confounding effect of confusion is not found to be direct, but to operate through a heterogeneous treatment effect. Time pressure selectively reduces average
contributions among those subjects whose contributions can confidently be interpreted as cooperative rather than confused.
date: 2016-11
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00022247
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0626
ppn_swb: 1654230979
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-222473
language: eng
bibsort: GOESCHLTIMCOOPERATIO201611
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0626
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 40
citation:   Goeschl, Timo ; Lohse, Johannes  (2016) Cooperation in Public Good Games. Calculated or Confused?  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22247/1/goeschl_lohse_2016_dp626.pdf