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1. Project title and descriptive summary Why do people quit? Speedy exits in timed chicken games
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@MISC{Tuckfield_1.project,
author = {Bradford Tuckfield},
title = {1. Project title and descriptive summary Why do people quit? Speedy exits in timed chicken games},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
A well-known truism says that you can’t win if you don’t play. Despite this, people quit jobs, abandon projects, exit negotiations, forfeit competitions, resign from offices, and in general withdraw from a variety of situations that could otherwise lead to favorable outcomes. Previous work has examined some causes of quitting, including anxiety (Brooks and Schweitzer 2011) and power differences (Bowles and Flynn 2010). Many other affective or situational factors that could lead to quitting have not yet been studied. Methods The proposed research will examine the propensity to quit through a new strategic game developed by Brooks and Schweitzer (2011). This game, called a “continuous shrinking pie game, ” is effectively a more sophisticated version of the “chicken game ” used extensively in game theory and decision research for decades. As originally developed, the new game shows players a graph of the size of a payoff “pie. ” As time passes, the pie shrinks continuously, until at the end of 60 seconds it has size 0. Players make only one choice: when to exit the game, a choice made in real time. The first player to exit determines the pie size and gets 25 % of the pie, while the other player gets the remaining 75 % of the pie. A propensity to quit can be measured
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timed chicken game project title general withdraw exit negotiation power difference new game favorable outcome first player chicken game new strategic game situational factor previous work pie game real time payoff pie forfeit competition time pass well-known truism sophisticated version abandon project decision research pie size game theory
