Benefit Unexpectedness and Gratitude Expression Survey of 299 U.S. Participants

Benefit Unexpectedness and Other-Praising Study 1, 2017 contains survey data from 299 participants recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. The study, funded by the Center of Social and Economic Behavior at the University of Cologne, examined how recalling an unexpected versus expected benefit influenced intentions to express gratitude. Participants described a benefit and rated their intention to express other-praising or self-benefiting statements.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between benefit unexpectedness and gratitude expression intentions based on the experimental manipulation.
• Modeling differences between other-praising and self-benefiting expression intentions based on the six-item assessment.
• Validating survey manipulation checks based on the two-item unexpectedness index.

Strengths

• Data from 299 participants with demographic details (151 female, 146 male, 2 other; Mage = 35.91, SDage = 11.39).
• Experimental design with random assignment to unexpected or expected benefit conditions.
• Includes manipulation-check items to validate the experimental manipulation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• No formal institutional ethics approval was available at the time of data collection.

Provenance

Source

Weiss, Alexa via ODUM Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Online survey via Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-12 16:03:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States