Deposit? Yes, please! The effect of different modes of assigning reward-and deposit-based financial incentives on effort 325 9 To make sure you actually stick to your plan next week, you are offered to pay a small deposit. That is, you can pay €5 that you will receive back in full if you indeed stick to your plan (i.e. go exercise, do the taxes, visit the doctor), but is lost if you forget or postpone. Would you do this? Answering categories: Yes, absolutely; Yes, probably; I’m not sure; No, probably not; No absolutely not. D4. Loss aversion Practice task: We are also interested in your preferences for different types of gambles. Please imagine that these lotteries would be played out and paid out today. Please complete the following list of choices between gambles. In the first row, you will choose option B, because you will always be better off in B. As you move down the list, option B becomes less attractive. In some row, you will probably choose option A. If so, you will also choose option A in all rows below that one, because in these option B is even less attractive. Similarly, if you choose option B in a given row, you will also choose option B in all rows above that one. The computer accounts for this by selecting all rows above the point in which you selected option B, and all points above where you selected option A. If this is unclear, you can practice with the choice list below:
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