Sorry for obtuseness, but I’m still not sure if you made a typo-ish mistake or not. You say (a) “here are two potential chocolate vendors, one of them of standard politeness, the second very rude” and (b) “willing to pay more in the second case than in the first”. Subbing (a) into (b) I get “willing to pay more in the very rude case than the standard politeness case”. I think this was just a flipped word, but thought I’d check
>If not, I’m not sure why you think people would be willing to pay more.
It’s more that they will pay less in the other case. Since the setup is experimental, I doubt people would reason about handicapping.
Sorry for obtuseness, but I’m still not sure if you made a typo-ish mistake or not. You say (a) “here are two potential chocolate vendors, one of them of standard politeness, the second very rude” and (b) “willing to pay more in the second case than in the first”. Subbing (a) into (b) I get “willing to pay more in the very rude case than the standard politeness case”. I think this was just a flipped word, but thought I’d check
Sorry, you are correct, that was a typo, now corrected.