Increasing the external validity of social preference games by reducing measurement error

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• dc.contributor.author Wang, Xinghua
• dc.contributor.author Navarro-Martinez, Daniel
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-23T07:44:16Z
• dc.date.available 2024-02-23T07:44:16Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract An increasing number of studies call into question the external validity of social preference games. In this paper, we show that these games have a low correlation with single pro-social behaviors in the field, but this correlation can be substantially increased by aggregating behaviors to reduce measurement error. We tracked people's daily pro-social behaviors for 14 days using a day reconstruction method; the same people played three different social preference games on seven different occasions. We show that, as more pro-social behaviors and game rounds are aggregated, the games become much better predictors of pro-sociality. This predictive power is further increased by using statistical methods designed to better account for measurement error. These findings suggest that social preference games capture important underlying dispositions of real-world pro-sociality, and they can be successfully used to predict aggregated pro-social inclinations. This has crucial implications for the external validity and applicability of economic games.
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• dc.identifier.citation Wang X, Navarro-Martinez D. Increasing the external validity of social preference games by reducing measurement error. Games Econ Behav. 2023;141:261-85. DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2023.06.006
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.06.006
• dc.identifier.issn 0899-8256
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59229
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Games and Economic Behavior. 2023;141:261-85.
• dc.relation.isreferencedby https://osf.io/xse7v/?view_only=4124d91067f84e1f9392acbf62d3d33f
• dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Social preference games
• dc.subject.keyword External validity
• dc.subject.keyword Field behavior
• dc.subject.keyword Measurement error
• dc.subject.keyword Aggregation
• dc.subject.keyword Day reconstruction method
• dc.title Increasing the external validity of social preference games by reducing measurement error
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