~20% of people were explicitly “less money in politics” in the lose-lose condition. This explains why ~20% of people took away money in the win-win condition, because it was the same people. That’s it. It doesn’t explain anything else. I just brought it up because it was interesting. While everyone else was having to struggle with difficult emotions, they just pressed the button to take away money, in line with their values. This was funny to me.
Let’s say we kicked the “less money in politics” crowd out of the study. If they were 20% of the respondents, I believe that about half the remaining people would have chosen each option. Which starts to look like it’s pretty arbitrary, not a sign of some deep seated psychological quirk. I’ll have to ask the author about that—thanks for explaining!
~20% of people were explicitly “less money in politics” in the lose-lose condition. This explains why ~20% of people took away money in the win-win condition, because it was the same people. That’s it. It doesn’t explain anything else. I just brought it up because it was interesting. While everyone else was having to struggle with difficult emotions, they just pressed the button to take away money, in line with their values. This was funny to me.
Gotcha.
Let’s say we kicked the “less money in politics” crowd out of the study. If they were 20% of the respondents, I believe that about half the remaining people would have chosen each option. Which starts to look like it’s pretty arbitrary, not a sign of some deep seated psychological quirk. I’ll have to ask the author about that—thanks for explaining!