A Social Dilemma Experiment Often Involves an Economic Decision-Making Task

question 94

Multiple Choice

A social dilemma experiment often involves an economic decision-making task in which participants must decide to cooperate or compete with their partner based on various payoffs.Although the format of the experiment does not resemble the real-world decisions participants may make, it is very involving, and participants often become highly competitive.Based on this description, a social dilemma experiment has

• A) high mundane realism.
• B) low mundane realism.
• C) high experimental realism.
• D) high experimental realism and low mundane realism.

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