Sequential Public Goods Game among profit-maximizing players ...

NOTE: This preregistration was required for a grant application, and the grant was not funded. No data was collected. A sequential Public Goods Game is a PGG in which players move one after another. In this case, no information is transmitted among the players. Here, we investigate the effects order has on behavior in the PGG as well as the correspondence between contributions and predictions of others' contributions among only those players attempting to maximize their own profits from the game, as determined by a Social Value Orientation scale. There is a significant body of literature examining behavior in sequential public goods games (public goods games where players make their move one after another). Generally, empirical evidence and modeling support lower contributions from players later in the sequence. However, this is accompanied by some sort of information about earlier players' moves flowing to later players. We examine the effect of sequence alone. The game as usually formalized is not ...