Public Goods Game Experiment

On average when the director of the experiment left, the children would struggle with deciding to eat the dessert. After about three minutes or less most of the children would eat the treat, “About thirty per cent of the children, however, were like Carolyn” (Lehrer, 2009). Some of the children had the strength to hold off on eating it, while others struggled and ate the treat between zero and three minutes.

For this study, all of the protocol was found in the Western Kentucky University Biology Department Lab Manual in labs two through five. The very first step in this series of experiments was to discover whether or not PTC was tasted or not. By using a control and a strip of PTC paper, I compared the taste to determine if I tasted the PTC or not. Then, all the data obtained by the class was combined in order to determine whether the class was in accordance with population genetics hypothesis of 70% being tasters, rejecting/failing to reject the second hypothesis. Using the chi-squared test, it was determined whether the deviation of the data was by chance or was due to other factors.

In many instances, people will not have the motivation or incentive to benefit a charity unless they get something out of it. Most people believe this to be a selfish act. Why can't someone do something nice for the community and not expect anything in return? Offering incentives for charitable acts is a easy way to bribe people, but sends a morally wrong and selfish message.

What were your controls for this experiment? What did they demonstrate? Why was saliva included in this experiment?

However, the association was not statistically significant. It is interesting to note that intervention groups (mindfulness intervention versus control) did not significantly differ in sweets consumption from baseline to six months, yet control participants consumed more sweets from six to 12 months and had significantly higher fasting glucose levels than those in the mindfulness group. It should also be highlighted that this fasting glucose increase (2.8 mg/dL) was still within normal range. In addition, measures of sweets consumption were given through self-report, and it is said that self-reported dietary intakes are often biased (Thompson, Subar, Loria, Reedy, & Baranowski,

However, it’s unknown exactly what kinds of situations will cause ambiguity to be avoided or preferred. The literature is also unclear as to whether the reaction is from the, “missing probability parameter itself, or (2) motivational or attributional factors…” (Rode et al. 1999) associated with comparing opitions. The authors hypothesized that, “people associate ambiguous probabilities with highly variable outcomes” (Rode et al. 1999). If the outcome that the person needs is higher than the average payoff of each option, then the person should actually default to the ambiguous option because it would have more variability, which could have a greater chance

The professor, Dr. Patterson, provided all of the materials that were necessary for the experiment. Two ½ liter bottles of soda were used: one Coke and one Pepsi. The sodas were non-diet caffeinated and chilled in the refrigerator to be kept cold. 40 small, plastic, shot glass-like cups were used to hold the drinks; they were numbered from 1-40. A box of saltine crackers was used as a palate cleanser and to prevent

This experience consisted of 20 subjects from Woden plaza varying of age and gender. It also included one student who was going to conduct the experiment.

For centuries, chocolate has been one of the favorite sweet- tasting treats in the world. Today, chocolate has become so common in our culture that it is nearly impossible to go through your day without encountering chocolate in your house, office, cafeterias, stores, and schools. Chocolate has many purposes including: improving mood, lowering blood pressure, improving a person’s ability to clot, and it helps the body repair from free radicals. Alberto Villodo summed it up best when he said, “We are spirits in a body.  The reason we came here to this World and to this Earth from the Spirit World is so we could experience chocolate, among other things – good coffee, the senses.” (“Heart Health Benefits of Chocolate”)

Public goods are those goods in which all of society benefit from and are equally shared among everyone within. These types of goods can be consumed simultaneously by several individuals without diminishing the value of consumption to any individual. The act of public goods being consumed by several individuals and not allow its value to diminish is known as non-rivalry. When shown graphically, non-rivalry shows that when each of the individuals within society shows a demand for a certain

Although, some researchers discount sugar more than approve it. A study was done to see if sugar affected a child’s impact to learn. In one study, researchers gave children foods containing either sugar or a sugar substitute every other day. The children who received sugar showed no different behavior or learning capabilities than those who received the sugar substitute. Another study in which children were given higher than average amounts of sugar or sugar substitutes showed similar results (National Institute of Mental Health, 2014).

The results would likely be similar to those in the high-sampling experiential groups of the Gonzalez and Mehlhorn experiment, finding a framing effect. For the experiential gain control group, if the subjects chose safer options like option 5, it would suggest that people are still risk-averse in gains frames even with experiential learning. If people chose riskier options like option 1, it would imply that the people are actually risk-seeking in gains frames when they learn experientially. This would support the view that the framing effect reverses in the experiential learning paradigm, causing people to become risk-seeking in gains. For the experiential loss control group, if subjects made riskier choices like option 1, it would mean that people are still risk-seeking in losses even when learning experientially. However, if subjects made safer choices like option 5, it would mean that the framing effect is reversed when people learn experientially. The difference between the proportion of subjects who made the risky choice in the experiential loss control group and experiential gain control group would help to show how much the framing effect holds up for experiential learning: if more subjects chose the risky option in the loss group, the effect holds for experiential learning. If subjects chose the risky option a

The population of this study will be male and female undergraduate students at Tennessee Tech University. Participants must be at least 18 years old or older to participant in this study. The ages of the participants will vary from 18 to 23 years old. The goal is to have approximately 100 participants or more in the study. Participation will be voluntarily for individuals to be involved in the experiment. There will be no compensation for this study. An online survey will be given to participants for the purpose of this study.

Prospect theory is an important alternative descriptive theory for decision-making under unreliable situation (Kahneman and Tversky 1979), which includes real life selection and psychological analysis between choices that involve risk. Prospect theory, which efforts to explain individual make decisions between risky replacements based on the value of potential gains and losses (Wakker 2010), advanced from expected utility theory, which explains that investors want to maximize expected utility of wealth when unclearly situations (Blavatskyy 2007). According to Kahneman and Tversky (1992), more recent researches perceived nonlinear preferences in choices that do not involve definite events in prospective theory. The concept of framing effect refers description invariances (Kahneman and Tversky 1992). To be specific, individual always makes the same decision in identical choice conditions. Also, decision makers have tendency to

risk-takers are more likely to accept jobs with a high degree of risk, the compensating wage