Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) (2017) The rank principle in social and cognitive comparison : experimental data. [Dataset]

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Abstract

How satisfied are we with our wages? Do British citizens pay more or less tax than they should? Does the UK take in more than its fair share of asylum seekers? People's answers to such questions are typically, highly relative. Wages are judged with reference to those of similar others in the same workplace or neighbourhood; many UK citizens believe that the UK takes too many asylum seekers in comparison to other countries. Thus judgements and decisions may be strongly determined by inaccurate prior beliefs or by a context of available information. For example, opinions about levels of immigration or taxation may be strongly Influenced by people's (often inaccurate) beliefs about levels in other European countries. The research is developing and testing a rank-based model of everyday judgement and decision-making. Attitudes are hypothesised to be influenced by the rank-ordered position of an option in a distiibution. For example, most people overestimate the number of very wealthy people in the UK. We find that individuals' life satisfaction is influenced by where they believe themselves to rank in this assumed wage distribution, rather than by their actual wage. The project applies rank-based models to judgements about various socially and politically important quantities.

Item Type:	Dataset
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology
Type of Data:	Experimental data
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Social perception -- Testing -- Great Britain , Social comparison, Wages -- Psychological aspects -- Great Britain , Social classes -- Psychological aspects -- Great Britain
Publisher:	University of Warwick, Department of Psychology
Official Date:	11 October 2017
Dates:	Date Event 11 October 2017 Published
Collection date:	Date from Date to 1 October 2010 30 September 2013
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Media of Output (format):	.xlsx .pdf
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Copyright Holders:	University of Warwick
Description:	Data record consists of 4 data files in .xlsx format, one PDF documentation file containing the final report and a readme file for the data. Data are presented in near-raw form. We have conducted a large number of laboratory-based experiments to test the predictions of the contextual model of judgement that formed the theoretical backbone of the project. Many of these laboratory experiments have been quite labour-intensive, involving individual subject testing. For a number of the experiments involving economic behaviour (such as the effects of “anchors” on people’s estimates of how much they are willing to pay for products) we have gone beyond what is normal within experimental psychology and made use of incentive compatible methodologies of the type developed within behavioural economics. Detailed methods information is available in the cited publications.
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:	Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID RES-062-23-2462 [ESRC] Economic and Social Research Council http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269
Related URLs:	Related item in WRAP Other
Contributors:	Contribution Name Contributor ID Contact Person Brown, G. D. A. (Gordon D. A.) 35782

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