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(Non-) impact of task experience on behavioral economic decision-making
Justin C Strickland1, B Levi Bolin2, Katherine R Marks3
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
|February 22, 2021
Summary
Participant prior experience minimally impacts behavioral economic task performance. Studies on behavioral economic demand and delay discounting show reliable results even with non-naïve participants in crowdsourced research.
Area of Science:
- Behavioral Economics
- Psychology
- Addiction Science
Background:
- Crowdsourcing is common in behavioral economics for task evaluation.
- Participant non-naïvety (prior task exposure) is a potential concern for data validity.
- The impact of non-naïvety on behavioral economic tasks is under-researched.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the influence of non-naïvety on task performance.
- To assess behavioral economic demand and delay discounting tasks.
- To determine if prior experience affects data fidelity in crowdsourced research.
Main Methods:
- Recruited 485 participants via Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk).
- Administered alcohol/soda purchase tasks and delay discounting tasks.
- Compared responding and effect sizes based on prior task experience.
Main Results:
- Over a quarter had demand task experience; nearly half had delay discounting experience.
- Minimal effect size differences (d=0.01-0.13) observed for purchase tasks, supporting generalization.
- Delay discounting showed slight sensitivity to experience, attenuated by alcohol use differences.
Conclusions:
- Behavioral economic task outcomes demonstrate fidelity despite participant non-naïvety.
- Non-naïvety in crowdsourced settings has minimal impact on common behavioral economic assays.
- Findings support the use of crowdsourcing for behavioral and addiction science research.
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