We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the …

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field … influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs about others' behavior. Our framework is an experimental public goods game … with a leader. We find that leaders strongly shape their followers' initial beliefs and contributions. In later rounds …

, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

We study beliefs and choices in a repeated normal-form game. In addition to a baseline treatment with common knowledge … beliefs as well as for the accuracy of their beliefs (relative to the opponent’s true choice). In the baseline treatment we … observe more sophisticated play as well as more accurate beliefs and more best responses to beliefs over time. We isolate …

educational bureaucracy. It is documented that the beliefs of that bureaucracy differ substantially from those of the broader … entropy defines how predictable one's occupation is as a function of one's beliefs. Heritability is the weight of the family …'s beliefs in the determination of the priors of a new generation. Both heritability and social entropy reduce the bias and makes …

. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash … strategy significantly more often, and their choices are more often consistent by being a best reply to first order beliefs. We … to textbook rationality. Using a mixture model, the estimated probability to play strategically is 62% for teams, but …

primitives such as preferences and beliefs. I review strong biological and behavioral evidence indicating that trusting is not … preferences and beliefs, and it suggests ways to examine and interpret a causal role of trust. …