Social Preferences in the Lab: A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population
Social Preferences in the Lab: A Comparison of Students and a Representative Population
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DOI：
10.1111/sjoe.12114
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Tungodden, Bertil
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作者：
Cappelen, Alexander W.;Nygaard, Knut;Tungodden, Bertil
我们报告了一项实验室实验，参与者样本是挪威全国代表性的成年人，两个学生样本（经济学专业学生和非经济学专业学生）。参与者在独裁者博弈（非战略环境）和广义信任博弈（战略环境）中做出选择。我们发现，无论是对不同道德动机（效率、公平和互惠）的相对重要性，还是在自私行为的水平上，代表性样本都与学生样本有着根本的不同。同样有趣的是，在学生样本中观察到的性别效应与代表性样本中观察到的性别效应并不对应。最后，尽管经济学专业的学生比非经济学专业的学生表现得更不亲社会，但这两个学生群体在赋予不同道德动机的相对重要性方面是相似的。
We report from a lab experiment conducted with a sample of participants that is nationally representative for the adult population in Norway and two student samples (economics students and non-economics students). The participants make choices both in a dictator game (a non-strategic environment) and in a generalized trust game (a strategic environment). We find that the representative sample differs fundamentally from the student samples, both in the relative importance assigned to different moral motives (efficiency, equity, and reciprocity) and in the level of selfish behavior. It is also interesting to note that the gender effects observed in the student samples do not correspond to the gender effects observed in representative sample. Finally, whereas economics students behave less pro-socially than non-economics students, the two student groups are similar in the relative importance they assign to different moral motives.