This HIT is a psychology experiment being conducted by Falk Lieder from Professor Tom Griffiths's Computational Cognitive Science Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. In order to consent to participate, you MUST meet the following criteria:
18 years of age or older.
Fluent speaker of English.
Have not participated in this experiment before.
This study is designed to look at how people make decisions. In this task, you will be asked to make choices and answer questions related to those decisions.
The study will take between 1 and 60 minutes, and will pay $0.05-$12 depending on the length of the task.
Your participation in this research is voluntary. You may refrain from answering any questions that make you uncomfortable and may withdraw your participation at any time without penalty by returning the HIT on MTurk and emailing the experimenter at the address provided below.
Other than monetary compensation, participating will provide no direct benefits to you. But, we hope that this research will benefit society at large. Many problems that people can solve very easily are very difficult to automate (to have computers solve). By revealing more about how humans learn and think, our research may help others to build and program computers that can solve these kinds of problems.
Your MTurk worker ID may be connected to individual responses, but we will not be asking for any additional personally identifying information, and we will handle responses as confidentially as possible. We cannot however guarantee the confidentiality of information transmitted over the Internet. We will be keeping data collected as part of this experiment indefinitely.
If you have any questions about the study, feel free to contact Falk Lieder. He can be reached at falk.lieder@berkeley.edu. If you have concerns about your rights as a participant in this experiment, please contact UC Berkeley's Committee for Protection of Human Subjects at (510) 642-7461 or subjects@berkeley.edu.
By selecting the "consent" option below, I acknowledge that I am 18 or older, that I am a fluent speaker of English, that I have not completed this experiment before, that I have read this consent form, and that I agree to take part in the research.
I consent to participate.
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These are the instructions for the first block.
Quiz
The two images below show the final screens of two participants after the last flight. The amount of money earned, the number of stars collected, and the pilot's shoulder patch are shown at the top. Will either of them receive a higher bonus than the other?
The top one will get more bonus.
Both will get the same bonus.
The bottom one will get more bonus.
Here are two more final screens. Will either of them lead to a higher bonus than the other?
The top one will get more bonus.
Both will get the same bonus.
The bottom one will get more bonus.
How about these two?
The top one will get more bonus.
Both will get the same bonus.
The bottom one will get more bonus.
Imagine you are at Moore City. You earn or pay money for each flight and you can fly around until the airplane gets sold. Which destination is more profitable in the long run?
Davis City.
Both are equally good.
Wilson City.
Here is a new map. Imagine you are at Evansville. You earn or pay money for each flight and you can fly around until the airplane gets sold. Which destination is more profitable in the long run?
Davis City.
Both are equally good.
Wilson City.
Here is a new map. Imagine you are at Reynoldsville. You earn or pay money for each flight and you can fly around until the airplane gets sold. Which destination is more profitable in the long run?
Davis City.
Both are equally good.
Wilson City.
You can use a calculator if you have to.
Congratulations! You passed the entry quiz. You are now ready to start the game.
Sorry, but you failed the quiz. Please read the instructions again and retake the quiz. We cannot let you play the game until you have demonstrated that you understand the rules.
Trial 1/
Location: Cloud City
Flight 1
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Please enter the flight plan for the remaining 2 moves!
Flight Plan:
This was your last flight on this aircraft because it has just been sold. Yet, fortunately, your boss decided that you can take over the responsibility for another airplane.
Thank you for participating!
If your submission is accepted you will receive a bonus that reflects how much money you made in the game. The top 1 percent of the players receive 100 cents, the second percentile of players receives 99 cents, the third percentile receives 97 cents, ..., and the worst 1 percent will receive a bonus of 1 cent.
