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Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …
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result from judgments based on imprecise (and noisy) mental representations of the decision situation. In this model, risk … aversion results from a sort of perceptual bias--but one that represents an optimal decision rule, given the limitations of the … lotteries, based on other evidence regarding numerical cognition, and test its ability to explain the choice frequencies that we …
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. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …
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This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …
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observable exogenous causes. We explore an alternative approach that generates predictions based on relationships across decision … experiment, we find that this method yields accurate estimates of price sensitivities for a collection of products under …
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Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately …
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experiences ("use-dependent brain"). I show that experience effects help understand belief formation and decision-making in a wide … that experience-based learning is broadly applicable to economic decision-making and discuss topics for future research in …
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experiment in which 97,678 adults from a wide range of fields and ages were invited to join a product development opportunity …
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Forecast errors for inflation decline monotonically with both verbal and quantitative IQ in a large and representative male population. Within individuals, inflation expectations and perceptions are autocorrelated only for men above the median by IQ (high-IQ men). High-IQ men's forecast...
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This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest...
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