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Economic games are very useful tools for experimental verification of the basic processes that govern human behavior in choice situations. The Sharing Game is a tool that aims to study the phenomena of altruism or generosity through the allocation of material resources. In a within-subject design, 2 different experiments involving repeated trials over 20 opportunities in which participants performed the monetary choices to distribute resources between themselves and an unseen, passive participant, under 3 different conditions were carried out regarding to the values in money (A, B, and C). The choices were classified as optimal, competitive, or egalitarian and other providing alternatives between larger versus smaller immediate financial gains with progressively longer delays. This study sought to determine whether the cost of response, the gender, the amount of money, and the order of presentation of the experiments influenced the allocation of resources in the first experiment. The study included 240 participants equally distributed between Conditions A, B, and C. One hundred twenty were included in the first order of presentation: Experiment 1 followed by Experiment 2, whereas the remaining 120 did the same experiments in reverse order. The data indicated an increase in the percentage of optimal choices in the first experiment, Sharing Game, when the Sharing Game experiment was presented after the second experiment, Temporal Discounting. Both gender and amount of money influenced the results. Men chose more optimized alternatives than women (in the economic sense). When values were greater, more optimized choices appeared, raising discussions about variables that are potentially effective in promoting choices, whose individual and collective benefits are higher in the long run. |
