Description of 7 datasets used in the paper "Good luck, bad luck, and ambiguity aversion". Pulford and Gill All are SPSS files. Excel versions are available by contacting Briony Pulford bdp5@le.ac.uk all.sav This is the main data from all 6 studies used in the logistic regression described in section 7.2, paragraph 2. Variables: Study = Experiment 1 to 6 Pno = Participant number from each study (not unique as there are 6 studies) age = age of the participant gender, (1=male, 2=female) Condition, the main IV (1=Control, 2=Lucky, 3=Unlucky) UrnswinAB, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the positively framed Ellsberg Urns win task (1=A Known, 2=B Ambiguous) UrnsloseAB, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the negatively framed Ellsberg Urns lose task (1=A Known, 2=B Ambiguous) e1.sav Variables: Pno, participant number Age = age of the participant Gender, (1=male, 2=female) Condition, the main IV (1=Control, 2=Lucky, 3=Unlucky) orderofurntask, the presentation order of the 2 Urns tasks (p/n = positive then negative, n/p = negative then positive) positiveurntask, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the positively framed Ellsberg Urns win task (A= Known, B= Ambiguous) negativeurntask, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the negatively framed Ellsberg Urns lose task (A= Known, B= Ambiguous) Ethnicity = self declared ethnicity of the participant e2.sav Variables: Pno, participant number Age = age of the participant Gender, (1=male, 2=female) Condition, the main IV (1= Lucky, 2=Unlucky) AAchoice, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the positively framed Ellsberg Urns win task (1= Known, 2= Ambiguous) colour, colour of ball participant decided was the winning colour (1=red, 2=blue) checkabove, manipulation check to question "What was the number of tokens in the panel directly above the one that you landed on (i.e. the panel that you narrowly missed in the fruit machine game)?" (1 ="0", 2="5", 3="10", 4="15", 5= "70", 6="don't remember"). To remain in the dataset participants in the Lucky group had to remember that they nearly got "0", and those in the Unlucky group had to remember that they nearly got "70". Ethnicity = self declared ethnicity of the participant e3.sav Variables: Pno, participant number Age = age of the participant Gender, (1=male, 2=female) Condition, the main IV (1=Control, 2=Lucky, 3=Unlucky) Urnswin, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the positively framed Ellsberg Urns win task (0= Known Urn A, 1= Ambiguous Urn B) Urnslose, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the negatively framed Ellsberg Urns lose task (0= Known Urn A, 1= Ambiguous Urn B) checkabove, manipulation check to question "What was the number of tokens in the panel directly above the one that you landed on (i.e. the panel that you narrowly missed in the fruit machine game)?" ( "Bankrupt","5","10","15", "70", "don't remember"). To remain in the dataset participants in the Lucky group had to remember that they nearly got "Bankrupt", and those in the Unlucky group had to remember that they nearly got "70 tokens". Those in the Control group could not see the number above, so any answer they guessed is acceptable. e4.sav Variables: Pno, participant number Age = age of the participant Gender, (1=male, 2=female) Condition, the main IV (1=Control, 2=Lucky, 3=Unlucky) Urnwincol, Colour chosen to win on positive frame UrnswinAB, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the positively framed Ellsberg Urns win task (0= Known Urn A, 1= Ambiguous Urn B) Urnlosecol, Colour chosen to win on negative frame UrnsloseAB, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the negatively framed Ellsberg Urns lose task (0= Known Urn A, 1= Ambiguous Urn B) Attentive, " I am attentive" (1 "does not describe me at the present moment" to 5 "Describes me very well at the present moment") Alert, "I am alert" (1 "does not describe me at the present moment" to 5 "Describes me very well at the present moment") Happy, "I feel happy" (1 "does not describe me at the present moment" to 5 "Describes me very well at the present moment") Luckfeel, "I feel lucky" (1 "does not describe me at the present moment" to 5 "Describes me very well at the present moment") checkabove, manipulation check to question "What was the number of tokens in the panel directly above the one that you landed on (i.e. the panel that you narrowly missed in the fruit machine game)?" ( "Bankrupt","5","10","15", "70", "don't remember"). To remain in the dataset participants in the Lucky group had to remember that they nearly got "Bankrupt", and those in the Unlucky group had to remember that they nearly got "70 tokens". Those in the Control group could not see the number above, so any answer they guessed is acceptable. e5.sav Variables: Pno, participant number Age = age of the participant Gender, (1=male, 2=female) Condition, the main IV (1=Control, 2=Lucky, 3=Unlucky) orderofurntask, the presentation order of the 2 Urns tasks (p/n = positive then negative, n/p = negative then positive) positiveurntask, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the positively framed Ellsberg Urns win task (1= Known Urn A, 2= Ambiguous Urn B) negativeurntask, dependent variable of which urn chosen in the negatively framed Ellsberg Urns lose task (1= Known Urn A, 2= Ambiguous Urn B) e6.sav Variables: |PNo |Participant number | |age |age | |gender |Gender (1=male, 2=female) | |Condition |Condition (1=control, 2=Lucky) | |UrnswinAB |Choice A/B on urns where they can win (1= Known Urn A, 2= | | |Ambiguous Urn B) | |Win |Won a raffle ticket or not (1=yes, 2=no) | |BAL1 |1. I consider myself to be an unlucky person. | |BAL2 |2. I consistently have bad luck. | |BAL3 |3. Even the things in life I can control in life don't go my way | | |because I am unlucky | |BAL4 |4. Luck works against me. | |BAL5 |5. I often feel like it's my unlucky day. | |BAL6 |6. I mind leaving things to chance because I am an unlucky person.| |BAL7 |7. Even the things in life I can't control tend to go my way | | |because I'm lucky. | |BAL8 |8. I consistently have good luck. | |BAL9 |9. I often feel like it's my lucky day. | |BAL10 |10. Luck works in my favour. | |BAL11 |11. I consider myself to be a lucky person. | |BAL12 |12. I don't mind leaving things to chance because I'm a lucky | | |person. | |BAL13 |13. It's a mistake to base any decisions on how unlucky you feel. | |BAL14 |14. Being unlucky is nothing more than random. | |BAL15 |15. It's a mistake to base any decisions on how lucky you feel. | |BAL16 |16. Being lucky is nothing more than random. | |BAL17 |17. Some people are consistently lucky, and others are unlucky. | |BAL18 |18. Some people are consistently unlucky, and others are lucky. | |BAL19 |19. There is such a thing as good luck that favours some people, | | |but not others. | |BAL20 |20. There is such a thing as bad luck that affects some people | | |more than others. | |BAL21 |21. Luck plays an important part in everyone's life. | |BAL22 |22. I believe in Luck. | |Unlucky |Belief in being unlucky =MEAN(BAL1,BAL2,BAL3,BAL4,BAL5,BAL6)*6. | |Lucky |Belief in being lucky=MEAN(BAL7,BAL8,BAL9,BAL10,BAL11,BAL12)*6 | |Rejectluck|Rejection of belief in luck=MEAN(BAL13,BAL14,BAL15,BAL16)*4. | |Generalluck|General belief in | | |luck=MEAN(BAL17,BAL18,BAL19,BAL20,BAL21,BAL22)*6. | BAL SCALE SCORING: 1 strongly disagree , 2 mostly disagree, 3 somewhat disagree, 4 somewhat agree, 5 mostly agree, 6 strongly agree