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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2021 Oct 27;32(11):1842–1855. doi: 10.1177/09567976211015942

Figure 2. Switching points.

Figure 2

Distribution of switching points across the risk (a), helping (b), and risky helping task (c). Red line indicates the border of risk aversion to risk seeking (risk task) and social efficiency to inefficiency (helping and risky helping task). Social efficiency refers to making helping/risky helping decision only when the combined (expected) payoff for decider and receiver exceeds the sure payoff of not helping. Having a switching point above the efficiency point means that participants chose to help even when the combined (expected) payoff for decider and receiver was lower than the sure payoff of 15 MU for not helping (i.e. 15 MU for the decider and 0 MU for the receiver).