Watchtower — a supply-chain disruption-response game.

Watchtower is the experimental task used in Vos & Shi (Study 3) for the paper “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: How Overprecision and Psychological Distance Shape Supply Chain Disruption Response.” Participants take the role of an operations manager at a fictional mid-size US manufacturer, monitor monthly risk signals across nine suppliers, and decide how to spend a $100,000 response budget across information-gathering, alternate suppliers, buffer inventory, escalation, and holding the operating budget.

For Prolific participants

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For researchers and reviewers

Source code and pre-registration materials are available on request. The protocol is approved under PSU IRB 1106. Anonymized data and analysis scripts will be deposited on OSF following publication.

Investigators

Frederik G. S. Vos and Wanying Shi · School of Business, Portland State University.

Questions: fvos@pdx.edu · IRB: psuirb@pdx.edu