Risk-taking behavior in social dilemmas influenced by outcome framing.
The study looked at how people make decisions in social dilemmas based on whether the outcomes are seen as gains or losses. They compared two games, the prisoner's dilemma and the chicken game, to see how risk attitudes affect cooperation. In the chicken game, more people chose to defect when the outcomes were framed as losses compared to gains. However, in the prisoner's dilemma, there was no difference in choices between gain and loss frames. Risk attitude influenced decisions in the chicken game but not in the prisoner's dilemma.