Experimental Design
Session 2: The experimental design is between-subjects (3 x 1) and in each condition: within-subject (the six decisions).
The participants will be recruited by SSRS (and their partners) and invited to complete a study on “Individual Decision Making”. The inclusion criteria are: (1) resident in the \sout{44} 92 Indiana counties \sout{close to Indianapolis, and not close to another city that has a children’s hospital}, (2) 18 years or older, and (3) an equal number of women and men (to the best of SSRS’s ability to balance gender from the probability panels and the nonprobability panels).
2023-08-16: All participants will complete five real-effort, bibliographic data entry tasks (10 to 15 minutes) to earn their payment (either $52 or $63).
Approximately one-third of the participants will be randomly assigned to each of the three conditions: control, e-mail, and video.
After watching the conditions, all participants fill out the Emotional Response Scale, the Principle of Care state measurement, and the Inclusion of Other in the Self. They then make their six decisions.
Then they answer the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, the Attention-Check question, the Principle of Care dispositional scale, gender, race/ethnicity, the Manipulation-Check questions, the experiment context questions, the questions about familiarity with the children’s hospital, the religion questions, and the political preference question.
At the very end, they decide whether they want a longer-term relationship with the hospital.
Session 1: The experimental design is also between-subjects (3 x 1) and in each condition: within-subject (the six decisions). The participants will be recruited by SSRS and invited to complete a study on “Individual Decision Making”. The inclusion criteria are: (1) a resident of the Indiana-48 perimeter counties, IL, KY, MI, or OH, (2) 18 years or older, and (3) an equal number of women and men (again, to the best of SSRS’s ability to balance gender from the probability panel).
Approximately one-third of the participants will be randomly assigned to each of the three conditions: check nothing, check own payment, and check own payment as well as how much is going to the hospital.
Session 3: The experimental design is also between-subjects (3 x 1), but there is no within-subject variation (participants do not make six donation decisions). The three conditions are the same as in Session 2: control, e-mail, and video.
The participants will be QRS panel members invited to complete a study on “Individual Decision Making”. The inclusion criteria are: (1) resident of IL, KY, MI, or OH, (2) 18 years or older, (3) an equal number of women and men, and (4) an age quota, so that the Qualtrics respondents match (approximately) the US age-sex distribution.