Ruling out motivation
Table 1 reports the productivity and misreporting results for the
two treatment conditions. We first compared the number of valid
words that participants listed in the two conditions in order to
identify motivational effects of wealth. On average, participants
in the wealthy condition created more valid words than did those
in the poor condition (12.03 vs. 10.69) but this difference was only
marginally significant, F(1, 51) = 3.37, p = .072, g2 = .06. We also
checked whether there were ‘‘careless” participants who understated
their productivity one or more times and found none.