Transcript
  • 00:01    |    
    Initial credits
  • 00:06    |    
    Introduction by Daniel Houser
  • 00:15    |    
    Natural language in economics
    • Economic study of natural language
    • Signaling
  • 01:22    |    
    Classification of natural language messages
  • 02:36    |    
    Quotes Vernon Smith
    • Message observation
    • Coordination games for message classification
  • 04:47    |    
    Goal of message classification
  • 06:25    |    
    Content analysis
    • Text messages
    • Goal of content analysis
    • When to use content analysis
  • 10:23    |    
    Outline of content analysis
    • Sampling
    • Unitizing
    • Categories
    • Coding
    • Reliability testing
    • Analysis
    • Validity
  • 15:46    |    
    Illustration of a content analysis
  • 16:08    |    
    Performance-based rewards
    • Alternative to content analysis for analyzing natural language messages
    • Influence of promises in trust and cooperation
  • 19:01    |    
    Charness & Dufwenberg game (5,5 version)
    • Charness & Dufwenberg game (7,7 version)
    • Charness & Dufwenberg game message treatments
    • Game results
  • 23:34    |    
    Message evaluation procedure for the Charness & Dufwenberg game
    • Evaluator incentives
    • Message evaluation game
    • Advantages of evaluation game
    • Intuition for focal equilibrium
    • Promises or empty talk examples
    • Result 1
    • Result 2
    • Gary Charness and Martin Dufwenberg's impressions of the results
  • 38:18    |    
    Standard content analysis comparison with the message evaluation game
  • 40:16    |    
    Quotes BBC News
    • Traditional economic research on punishment
    • Expressive function of punishment
  • 46:37    |    
    Quotes n , Erte Xiao and Daniel Houser
    • Purpose of the study
    • Motivation of the study
    • Reasons to punish an individual
    • Impact of control of emotion expression in economics
    • Emotion expression literature
    • Experiment's goal
  • 53:29    |    
    Ultimatum game without emotion expression (NEE)
    • Ultimatum game theory impact on punishment behavior
    • Experiment methodology
    • Hypothesis
    • Message evaluation procedures
    • Experiment procedures
    • Result 1
    • Responder's messages
      • Neutral messages
      • Positive messages
      • Negative messages
    • Result 2
  • 01:08:56    |    
    Bozo the Clown punching bags experiment
  • 01:11:50    |    
    Naturally occurring messages in economic exchange environments
  • 01:12:45    |    
    Open methodological questions
  • 01:13:56    |    
    Desirable properties of a message classification data generating process
  • Impact of words in a sentence
  • 01:17:04    |    
    Final words
  • 01:17:42    |    
    Final credits


Experimental Methods (Part II) Classification of Natural Language Messages

New Media  | 23 de octubre de 2012  | Vistas: 157

In this lecture, Daniel Houser deals with the function language has as a device to impact economic exchange and talks about the reasons of its outcome, stating that certain types of messages can make a great difference in the recipient of the information. He lists several reasons to the results like making promises, discussing benefits, convincing, persuading, and sharing possibilities that will eventually lead to economic transactions; and also, the methods people use when deciding what interpretation will be given to messages, consequently, referring to the classification of natural language. For a better understanding of the process, Houser concludes by providing desirable elements to be present in the categorization of communication, such as science, robustness, and accuracy.




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