Putting in Effort for the Benefit of All: The Role of Reward and Effort Requirements, 2019-2020

The data folder for the “Putting in effort for the benefit of all: the role of reward and effort requirements” project contains experimental data and project materials. Experimental data The Experimental data consists of one “Data_with_description_RM” file in .xlsx format. This file holds data from the effort task, where participants were required to declare a number of times they wanted to squeeze a handgrip device for group benefit or individual gain before actually completing the task. The file contains: • information about participants’ unique identifier (column A), group allocation (column B), gender (column C), age (column D), the condition they were in (column E), and the pot to which they contributed effort to begin with (column F), information about the number of trials participants intended to contribute to the individual (column H) and public pot (column I) and how many trials they actually contributed to the different pots (individual – column J, group – column K), as well as information about the round of the experiment (column G). Experimental data also includes transcripts from the online chatroom. This includes 36 files in .docx format. The files contain transcripts from the online chats from Round 1 and Round 2 for each group separately. Each chat participant is marked by their unique identifier. Project materials include two files in .docx format: the detailed information sheet given to participants, and the combined brief information sheet and consent form document.