Adversarial risks in the lab – An experimental study of framing-effects in attacker-defender games

We conducted an economic lab experiment to test for a two-player defender-attacker game the theoretical predictions and two variants of framing. We used framing to intensify the players’ perceived conflict of interests in the underlying defender-attacker game by uniformly shifting payoffs (endogenous framing) and modifying wording (exogenous framing). Participants played both roles (defender and attacker). Our results show two main effects,...