Study Charness & Grosskopf (2001): study ES 1998

Public

University students, Barcelona, Spain, 1998

Sample

Respondents

N = 121

Non Response

0 %

Assessment

Multiple assesment methods
Questionnaire and experiment

Correlate

Authors's Label

Passive (dead) vs active (live) role in partition experiment

Our Classification

Distribution

A.: N= 60   B.: N= 61

Operationalization

Ss met in one large room and were explained that they would randomly be assigned one of two roles in an experiment:
A: Passive role (dead), no say in the decision, only asked what they would do if they had been in the other role and/or to predict the choice of B
B: Active role (live), makes two decisions about partition of money (about $10) between A and B

After this introduction Ss were randomly assigned either role A or role B. Next Ss answered written questions about respectively general happiness (GH), comparative happiness (CH) and momentary happiness (MH)

Observed Relation with Happiness