In this short game, you have been randomly paired with an online partner in another location. You have been allocated 10 points. Depending on your remaining points at the end of the game, you will be granted a bonus payment on your HIT. Your partner has not been given any points. However, you can give some of your points away to the other player, increasing their bonus payment. The other player does not have any control over the outcome of the game.

How many points will you give to the other player?

We will now ask you to answer a short set of demographic questions. The first question asks about your perspective on where you stand socially, relative to other people.

Think of this ladder as representing where people stand in the your country. At the top of the ladder are the people who are the best off: those who have the most money, the most education, and the most respected jobs. At the bottom are the people who are the worst off: those who have the least money, least education, the least respected jobs, or no job. The higher up you are on this ladder, the closer you are to the people at the very top; the lower you are, the closer you are to the people at the very bottom.

Where would you place yourself on this ladder, where 1 is the bottom rung and 10 is the top rung?

Are you male or female (as biologically assigned at birth)?

Male

Female

No answer

To which gender, if any, do you identify?

Cisgendered Man

Cisgendered Woman

Trans Man

Trans Woman

Genderfluid

Non-Binary

Other

No answer

How old are you (in years)?

How religious would you rate yourself to be on a scale of 1 to 7?

1 (not at all religious)

7 (extremely religious)

Which group(s) do you identify as belonging to? (Choose all that apply)

African / African-American

Asian

Caucasian

Indigenous / Native American

Latin / Latin-American

Middle Eastern

Other

What is your current country of residence?

First, thank you very much for taking part in our study.

A study published in 2010 by Piff and colleagues found that participants of lower socioeconomic status (a person's social standing on the basis of income and wealth) tend to be more generous in the type of economic game you played in this experiment. However, the study has been called into question in recent years. As part of a class project for an applied statistics course, we are attempting to replicate the study to better assess the reliability and reproducibility of the results.

In the economic game, there was no online partner, and we were only interested in measuring how many points you chose to allocate, which is an act of generosity given that doing so would reduce your overall payout in order to increase someone else's payout. In reality, the points are not going to influence your payment, and you will be granted an automatic $1 increase to the advertised $2.

This original study found a strong effect of socioeconomic status on the number of points allocated, with none of the other characteristics we asked about playing an important role. We will analyze our replication to determine whether the same pattern emerges.

If you have any questions about the research, please contact Dr. Evan Curtis at evan.curtis@boothuc.ca or 1-204-924-4881.

If you would like to receive a summary of the results, please provide your email in the space below. If you would like to withdraw your data, please select the option below (please note that you cannot withdraw your data once the HIT is submitted, as we will have no way of identifying which data are associated with your name or Worker ID).

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