eprintid: 27201
rev_number: 15
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3730
dir: disk0/00/02/72/01
datestamp: 2019-09-27 13:53:45
lastmod: 2019-10-18 10:11:46
status_changed: 2019-09-27 13:53:45
type: workingPaper
succeeds: 25669
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Schmidt, Robert J.
creators_name: Schwieren, Christiane
creators_name: Sproten, Alec N.
title: Norms in the lab: Inexperienced versus experienced participants
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
cterms_swd: laboratory experiments
cterms_swd: selection effects
cterms_swd: learning
cterms_swd: generalizability
cterms_swd: methodology
abstract: Using coordination games, we study whether social norm perception differs between inexperienced and experienced participants in economic laboratory experiments. We find substantial differences between the two groups, both regarding injunctive and descriptive social norms in the context of participation in lab experiments. By contrast, social norm perception for the context of daily life does not differ between the two groups. We therefore conclude that learning through experience is more important than selection effects for understanding differences between the two groups. We also conduct exploratory analyses on the relation between lab and field norms and find that behaving unsocial in an experiment is considered substantially more appropriate than in daily life. This appears inconsistent with the hypothesis that social preferences measured in lab experiments are inflated and indicates a distinction between revealed social preferences as measured commonly and the elicitation of normatively appropriate behavior.
date: 2019-09
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00027201
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0666
ppn_swb: 1678114111
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-272017
language: eng
bibsort: SCHMIDTROBNORMSINTHE201909
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0666
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 24
citation:   Schmidt, Robert J. ; Schwieren, Christiane ; Sproten, Alec N.  (2019) Norms in the lab: Inexperienced versus experienced participants.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/27201/1/Schmidt_et_al_2019_dp666.pdf