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Correlational findings

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
Decision 2 (egalitarian vs downgrading choice)
Our Classification
Remarks
Values were in Spanish Peseta's: 150 = US$ 1 Only active subjects (B) considered here.
Distribution
Egalitarian 88%, downgrading 12%
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 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)

Then B's were asked to choose between two options for partition between all A and B subjects, which were equally rewarding for themselves:
1 downgrading: 400 for A, 600 for B
2 egalitarian: 600 for A, 600 for B

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks A-AOL-g-sq-v-11-a DM = ns Downgrading: GH = 5.86 (MH=5.43)
Egalitarian: GH = 6.74 (MH=6.15)
A-AOL-g-sq-v-11-a rs = -.13 ns A-AOL-g-sq-v-11-a rpc = -.13 ns rpc controled for mood of the moment (MH)