Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85041 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2013-012
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
Two participants have to decide jointly, with the discussions preceding their choice being video/audiotaped. For two tasks, one with and one without strategic interaction, we refer to obvious reasoning styles as mental models. The videotaped discussions are analyzed according to which mental models are mentioned by one or both participants in the same pair and how decisive such arguments were. The mental models for the risky choice task are analytic approach, commitment mode, and avoid chance, and for the outside-option game equality seeking, backward induction, and forward induction. We classify each pair according to their mental constellation in both tasks and assess mental models in addition to collecting choice data. Altogether, this allows for better explanations, especially of heterogeneity in reasoning and deciding.
Subjects: 
behavioral principles
outside option games
videotaped experiments
JEL: 
C72
C90
D03
G11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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