Diary of a

Interactions with Others

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:48:01 -0700

I’ve just posted a new experiment online. If you would like to participate in the study, please click here. This study is a follow-up to the similar studies that I have posted over the past 2 months. If you were a participant in one of those studies, you can still participate in this one. Just make sure to let me know—you’ll be asked during the study—that you have previously participated in a similar study. Upon completion of data collection, I will post the results of this study. Based on

Attitudes about groups and beliefs about strangers

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:59:49 -0800

For those of you who participated in this study, here are the results. Much of the background is identical to a previous post of mine where I went through the results of a study called “Strangers in a not-so-strange land”. That study didn’t seem to work and so I changed a few things. As you will see, the changes were not enough; this experiment failed to produce the results I had hoped, too. To recap what you did (you probably don’t remember the details as it has been two months), the first

Strangers in a not-so-strange land

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700

For those of you who participated in this experiment, here are the results. To recap, each of you read a description of a hypothetical interaction in which you and other person were each given 10 dollars. You (the other person) could transfer anywhere between 0 and 10 of those dollars to the other person (to you). Every dollar transferred got doubled. This type of interaction is sometimes called a Prisoner’s Dilemma. The dilemma exists because each player does best by not transferring any