2018
DOI: 10.1111/saje.12191
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Incentivising the Social Discounting Task: A Laboratory Experiment

Abstract: Altruism is one of the single most important social preferences driving human behaviour. In Psychology experiments, the Social Discounting Task is employed as a measure of altruism.A conventional laboratory experiment was conducted with 117 undergraduate students, with students randomly assigned to complete an incentivized and un-incentivized Social Discounting Task. In accordance with the 1/d law of giving, the results exhibit the expected inverse relationship between social distance and altruism. There is we… Show more

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“…Therefore, additional non-hypothetical scenarios may provide insight beyond self-report to capture how participants across different cultures would behave during the social discounting task. Currently, studies exploring whether hypothetical social discounting outcomes are similar to real outcomes have only measured within-culture similarities and differences (29, 30), with different results. Thus, future cross-cultural social discounting research should further examine real vs. hypothetical outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, additional non-hypothetical scenarios may provide insight beyond self-report to capture how participants across different cultures would behave during the social discounting task. Currently, studies exploring whether hypothetical social discounting outcomes are similar to real outcomes have only measured within-culture similarities and differences (29, 30), with different results. Thus, future cross-cultural social discounting research should further examine real vs. hypothetical outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%