Table 2.
MTurk-generated activities and MTurk-rated weights
| Activity | Raw Weight | Subject Variance | Scaled Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attending a musical event | -0.29 | 0.76 | -0.38 |
| Arts and crafts (ex: knitting, painting) | 0.09 | 1.06 | 0.08 |
| Attending a show/event (ex: theater, musical performance) | -0.08 | 0.73 | -0.11 |
| Attending a social gathering | -0.28 | 0.68 | -0.41 |
| Attending a sporting event | -0.75 | 1.36 | -0.55 |
| Attending an academic event (ex: a public lecture) | -0.53 | 0.42 | -1.26 |
| Attending to one’s health (ex: scheduling appointments, visiting a medical professional) | -0.33 | 0.57 | -0.58 |
| Browsing the internet | 1.62 | 0.63 | 2.57 |
| Building or repairing something (ex: car, fence, treehouse) | -0.06 | 1 | -0.06 |
| Celebrating a recent event (ex: birthday, accepting a new job) | -0.32 | 0.21 | -1.52 |
| Cleaning | 0.35 | 1.15 | 0.30 |
| Communicating virtually with someone (ex: zoom, facetime) | -0.31 | 0.75 | -0.41 |
| Completing personal chores/tasks | 0.66 | 1.13 | 0.58 |
| Conversating with someone | 0.45 | 0.26 | 1.73 |
| Dancing | -1.01 | 0.57 | -1.77 |
| Discussing personal matters | 0.02 | 0.2 | 0.10 |
| Engaging in politics (ex: volunteering for a campaign, reading political articles) | -0.99 | 1.5 | -0.66 |
| Going for a bike ride | -0.18 | 0.99 | -0.18 |
| Going for a drive | 0.37 | 0.59 | 0.63 |
| Going for a run | -0.31 | 0.89 | -0.35 |
| Going for a walk | 0.85 | 0.48 | 1.77 |
| Going out for a drink | -0.78 | 1.22 | -0.64 |
| Going out to eat | 0.55 | 0.87 | 0.63 |
| Going to a cafe | -0.01 | 0.44 | -0.02 |
| Hosting a social gathering | -0.87 | 0.35 | -2.49 |
| Lifting weights | -0.58 | 1.44 | -0.40 |
| Listening to a podcast | 0.31 | 0.74 | 0.42 |
| Listening to music | 1.06 | 0.89 | 1.19 |
| Participating in a religious activity | -1.75 | 1.75 | -1.00 |
| Participating in online games/activities | 0.7 | 1.31 | 0.53 |
| Participating in recreational games (ex: bowling, chess, mini-golf) | 0.06 | 0.55 | 0.11 |
| Playing a sport | -0.55 | 1.04 | -0.53 |
| Playing with a pet(s) | 0.63 | 1.2 | 0.53 |
| Preparing food (ex: cooking, baking) | 0.8 | 0.98 | 0.82 |
| Reading | 0.62 | 1.14 | 0.54 |
| Receiving a cosmetic treatment (ex: hair styling) from a professional | -0.68 | 0.92 | -0.74 |
| Resting, sleeping, or relaxing | 0.9 | 0.42 | 2.14 |
| Seeking out or receiving advice | -0.26 | 0.18 | -1.44 |
| Self-applying a cosmetic treatment (ex: painting nails, styling hair) | -0.62 | 1.26 | -0.49 |
| Shopping for leisure | 0.42 | 0.93 | 0.45 |
| Shopping for necessities (ex: groceries) | 0.59 | 0.75 | 0.79 |
| Singing | -0.76 | 0.8 | -0.95 |
| Smoking tobacco or marijuana recreationally | -1.41 | 1.75 | -0.81 |
| Spending time at an amusement park | -0.3 | 0.7 | -0.43 |
| Spending time in public spaces (ex: park, city square, zoo) | 0.13 | 0.36 | 0.36 |
| Spending time on a hobby | 1.27 | 1.77 | 0.72 |
| Spending time on artistic activities | 0.22 | 0.63 | 0.35 |
| Studying | -0.36 | 0.52 | -0.69 |
| Taking care of a pet(s) | 0.67 | 1.07 | 0.63 |
| Traveling/vacationing | -0.12 | 0.74 | -0.16 |
| Volunteering | -0.77 | 0.23 | -3.35 |
| Watching a movie in a theater | -0.11 | 1.44 | -0.08 |
| Watching something on a streaming service | 0.97 | 0.81 | 1.20 |
| Watching sports | -0.13 | 1.72 | -0.08 |
| Watching television | 0.95 | 1.15 | 0.83 |
| Working | 0.33 | 0.87 | 0.38 |
Note. MTurk refers to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk research crowdsourcing platform. MTurk participants generated activities, which experimenters pared down into slightly more abstract descriptions, as described in the main text, to facilitate consolidation of activities across respondents. A separate sample of MTurk participants rated the activities in a MaxDiff design to yield the data that were used to calculate the weights that were used to compute social value scores.