Does relational quality in a group affect CPR management?

Last registered on December 20, 2022
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General Information

Title
Does relational quality in a group affect CPR management?
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0010479
Initial registration date
December 05, 2022

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First published
December 13, 2022, 10:43 PM EST

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Last updated
December 20, 2022, 4:27 AM EST

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Locations

Country
Spain
Region
Country
France
Region

Primary Investigator

Name
Stefano Farolfi
Affiliation
CIRAD
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Dimitri Dubois
PI Affiliation
CEEM CNRS University of Montpellier
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PI Name
Marcela Brugnach
PI Affiliation
BC3
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Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2022-12-15
End date
2023-07-31
Keywords
Behavior, Environment & Energy, Lab
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Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
We observe experimentally whether relational quality perceived by members of a group affects CPR management. To this aim, we induce first different levels of relational quality in groups through competitive, cooperative and neutral effort tasks, and then let the groups play a repeated CPR. We also aim at understanding the role of communication on perceived relational quality, comparing the effect of communication with the effect of the effort task.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Brugnach, Marcela, Dimitri Dubois and Stefano Farolfi. 2022. "Does relational quality in a group affect CPR management? ." AEA RCT Registry. December 20. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.10479-1.4
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2022-12-15
Intervention End Date
2023-01-31

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
The effect of perceived relational quality in a group on the management by that group of a Common Pool Resource (CPR)
The effect that communication (cheap talk) has on relational quality in a group and then on the management by that group of CPR
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

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Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Our experimental design allows testing the following hypotheses:

H1: The rule of payment (individual, cooperation or competition) in the effort task creates different relational qualities between the group members. . This can be in the positive sense or in the negative one.
H2: Better relational quality improves (respectively, worst relational quality worsens) cooperation in CPR dilemmas.
H3: Communication (before a CPR game) improves group identity and solidarity, which is a crucial component of relational quality (Cardenas et al., 2004))
H4: Communication has an additive effect to a cooperative real effort task on improving relational quality in a group and therefore the management of CPR.

The experimental protocol involves two steps. 1) An effort task where players will count numbers in columns. The rule of payment in the effort task can be individual, cooperative or competitive. 2) a CPR game is played with or without communication .

A questionnaire containing qualitative questions to elicit the players’ perceptions of relational quality is submitted to players after the effort task and after the CPR. The same questionnaire is submitted to players after the two steps.

A between procedure will be used to test the treatment effect. Within a treatment, the questionnaires will check the changes in perceived relational quality due to the effort task and to communication.

Sequence of steps in the protocol:

Effort task | Questionnaire 1 |(Communication) | CPR game | Questionnaire 2 |

The treatments will consist of different initial real effort tasks and different levels of communication during the CPR game, as indicated below:

T0 (Baseline) individual initial task, no communication
T1 = cooperative initial task, no communication
T2 = competitive initial task, no communication
T3 = individual initial task, communication
T4 = cooperative initial task, communication
T5 = competitive initial task, communication


Experimental Design Details
Randomization Method
The participants are students from various disciplines of the university of Montpellier randomly selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 volunteers handled with the Online Recruitment Software for Economic Experiments (ORSEE).

Randomization Unit
Sessions of 20 participants (5 groups, N =4) will be run.
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
18 sessions
Sample size: planned number of observations
360 players
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
We will run 3 sessions/treatment, for a total of 18 sessions, corresponding to 360 participants (90 groups).
Each treatments will have 60 participants (15 groups).
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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Is the intervention completed?
No
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