Prudence, Justice, Benevolence, and Sex: Evidence from Similar Bargaining Games

Instructions text file for graphical user interface. Doesn't include text markup symbols, page breaks, or graphics. INSTRUCTIONS This is an experiment in the economics of strategic decision making. Various agencies have provided funds for this research. If you follow the instructions and make appropriate decisions, you can earn an appreciable amount of money. At the end of today's session, you will be paid in private and in cash. It is important that you remain silent and do not look at other people's work. If you have any questions, or need assistance of any kind, please raise your hand and an experimenter will come to you. If you talk, laugh, exclaim out loud, etc., you will be asked to leave and you will not be paid. We expect and appreciate your cooperation. You will be making choices on a Logitech mouse, which is located on the mouse pad in the middle of your table. You may move the pad to the right or left if this would be more comfortable. Hold the mouse in a relaxed manner with your thumb and little finger on either side of the mouse. Rest your wrist naturally on the table surface. When you move the mouse, let your hand pivot from the wrist. Use a light touch. Your cursor (a white arrow on your screen) should move when you slide the mouse on the mouse pad. If it does not, raise your hand. To participate, you must be able to move the cursor onto an object and click any one of the mouse buttons. We will call pointing at an object and then clicking your mouse "clicking on" an object displayed on the screen. Click on the page down icon located below to display the next page. The experiment consists of seventy separate decision making periods. In this experiment you will participate in a group of eight people. At the beginning of each decision making period each participant will be randomly assigned a participant type. Each decision making period four participants will be assigned the type "Row" and four participants will be assigned the type "Column". Each period you will be randomly reassigned a type and randomly repaired with one of the four participants of the other type. If you are a Row participant in the current decision making period you will be randomly repaired with a Column participant for the current decision making period. …