I think we agree on the taboo/loyalty test thing, and I don’t have strong, considered, specific views on the details of people’s psychological state—I don’t think the results of a “how each option makes them feel emotionally” study is likely to surprise me, because I just don’t have very articulate or confident views on that level of granularity.
I’m still not quite sure what you’re pointing out with the “less money in politics” thing explaining these results. Is that something you can spell out point by point, maybe giving specific numbers from the study to buttress your argument? I realize that’s a big ask, I understand if you don’t want to take the trouble.
~20% of people were explicitly “less money in politics” in the lose-lose condition. This explains why ~20% of people took away money in the win-win condition, because it was the same people. That’s it. It doesn’t explain anything else. I just brought it up because it was interesting. While everyone else was having to struggle with difficult emotions, they just pressed the button to take away money, in line with their values. This was funny to me.
Let’s say we kicked the “less money in politics” crowd out of the study. If they were 20% of the respondents, I believe that about half the remaining people would have chosen each option. Which starts to look like it’s pretty arbitrary, not a sign of some deep seated psychological quirk. I’ll have to ask the author about that—thanks for explaining!
I think we agree on the taboo/loyalty test thing, and I don’t have strong, considered, specific views on the details of people’s psychological state—I don’t think the results of a “how each option makes them feel emotionally” study is likely to surprise me, because I just don’t have very articulate or confident views on that level of granularity.
I’m still not quite sure what you’re pointing out with the “less money in politics” thing explaining these results. Is that something you can spell out point by point, maybe giving specific numbers from the study to buttress your argument? I realize that’s a big ask, I understand if you don’t want to take the trouble.
~20% of people were explicitly “less money in politics” in the lose-lose condition. This explains why ~20% of people took away money in the win-win condition, because it was the same people. That’s it. It doesn’t explain anything else. I just brought it up because it was interesting. While everyone else was having to struggle with difficult emotions, they just pressed the button to take away money, in line with their values. This was funny to me.
Gotcha.
Let’s say we kicked the “less money in politics” crowd out of the study. If they were 20% of the respondents, I believe that about half the remaining people would have chosen each option. Which starts to look like it’s pretty arbitrary, not a sign of some deep seated psychological quirk. I’ll have to ask the author about that—thanks for explaining!