ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Kindly Confused? People Share Money with Computers for Social Reasons
- Yngwie Nielsen
- Isabel Thielmann
University of Kolbenz-Landau - Ingo Zettler
University of Copenhagen - Stefan Pfattheicher
Aarhus University
Abstract
People willingly share money with computers. This begs the question: does cooperation in economic games reflect true prosocial preferences or is it merely confusion? Across two studies we show that participants’ cooperation with computers can be predicted by “social” variables, thus, challenging the distinction between prosocial preference and confusion.
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