Welcome to the Social Deduction Game!

This is a scientific study being carried out by the UK Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology.

This study will last approximately 20 minutes and offers up to £10 in payment and £5 in bonuses. It involves the following tasks and approximate time required:

  • Consent (2 min)
  • Pre-Survey (5-10 min)
  • Game Instructions (5 min)
  • Matchmaking (5 min)
  • Chat with another participant (10 minutes)
  • Post-study Questionnaire (8 questions, 2 minutes)

Do you want to participate?

Warning

Before we begin, here are a few important details:

  1. Do not refresh the page or use the back button. This will cause the study to end prematurely.
  2. If you end the study prematurely, you will generally be able to resume where you left off, though you may have to restart a survey if that is where you left off.
  3. However, you will not be paid or be able to resume the study if you end the study during the chat task.
  4. If your chat partner ends the study prematurely, you will be compensated for your time.
  5. If you experience errors or need support, use the Prolific help system to reach out to the research team.

Welcome to the Social Deduction Game!

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Welcome to the Social Deduction Game!

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Consent

Consent pages will be here. Do you consent?

Presurvey

Presurvey will go here. Submit your survey responses below

Instructions

Game Instructions will be here? Click finish to continue to be matched with other players.

Matched

You will be the Target/Detective

You will get points if your partner guesses your gender correctly.

You will get points if your partner guesses your gender incorrectly.

You will get points if you guess your partner's gender correctly.

You and your partner are being taken to a chat room now

No Match was found

We could not find a valid match. Press continue to go back to the matching stage to try again

Not enough players

You can submit for payment or return to waiting room

Chatting

You're the Target/Detective

You will get points if your partner guesses your gender correctly.

You will get points if your partner guesses your gender incorrectly.

You will get points if you guess your partner's gender correctly.

Your partner dropped. Press continue to complete the study for payment.

You completed the chat. Was your partner a male or female

You completed the chat. Please wait while your partner makes their guess

You have completed the round. Go on to the debrief to submit your data for payment

Debriefing

Thank you for participating in our study!

In this study, we wanted to investigate how people communicate across different contexts, in which they have to find out if it is more beneficial to work together or compete with each other and which strategic choices humans make in these scenarios.

The one-on-one conversation with the other player was framed around a scenario in which you had to either infer the other player's gender or be questioned about your gender by the other player.

Our hypothesis is that Detectives in general will be able to infer the Target's gender better than guessing randomly, but that they perform better if the target is honest and gives veridical feedback.

This research has important implications for understanding trust and deception in the context of collaboration and will inform future studies in the space of human-AI interactions.

While in the interest of balancing the experimental design we needed to artificially constrain the gender variable to be binary, we by no means want to imply that gender is binary in real-world settings.

We thank you again for taking part in this study.

If you have further questions or inquiries regarding the study, please contact the Principal Researcher Dr. Lennart Luettgau on researchteam@dsit.gov.uk.

Thank you

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