Decomposed games, focal points, and the framing of collective and individual interests

Sitzia, Stefania ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2588-5234, Penczynski, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5477-6830 and Zheng, Jiwei (2026) Decomposed games, focal points, and the framing of collective and individual interests. Experimental Economics. ISSN 1386-4157 (In Press)

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Abstract

We study whether the strategically equivalent decomposition of coordination games with focal points into two components is behaviourally relevant. The decompositions allow us to manipulate the framing of the game and to emphasise collective or individual interests. We observe that the game decompositions are indeed behaviourally relevant. Under a stronger framing manipulation, we find that the frequency of salient choices decreases when a pure coordination game is framed as two simultaneous battle of the sexes components. Also, we observe that the frequency of salient choices is higher when the pure coordination component of a decomposed battle of the sexes game is presented first than when the game is presented without decomposition. Furthermore, we find that the size of the separated pure coordination payoff does not impact behaviour. Our results highlight the behavioural relevance of framing via game decompositions.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	decomposed games,focal points,framing,collective interest,3*,das in place,zenodo.23120369 ,/dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/REFrank/3_
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Environment, Resources and Conflict
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2026 10:16
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2026 23:14
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/104826
DOI:	issn:1386-4157

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