Psychological game theory can provide rational-choice-based framing effects; frames influence beliefs, beliefs …-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject’s first- and second-order beliefs, and contributions. From a … contributions are related to second- and first-order beliefs, respectively. Our results are consistent with either. -- Framing …

Psychological game theory can help provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs …, beliefs influence motivations. We explain this theoretically, and explore the empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2 …×2 design of one-shot public good games we show that frames affect subject's first- and second-order beliefs, and contributions …