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Tradeoffs between self-interest and other-regarding preferences cause willpower depletion
Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy - 2014
deplete cognitive resources and willpower and thus reduce individuals' ability to exert self-control. In a lab experiment we … of willpower. We find that subjects in the Conflict treatment perform significantly worse than those in NoConflict. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436516
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On peer effects : contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social cohesion
Dimant, Eugen - 2017 - This Version: April 2017
Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of behavioral contagion, in particular with respect to differences in contagion of pro- versus anti-social behavior. Our principal contribution is the use of a novel experimental approach that enables us to analyze the contagion of behavior under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660748
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How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?
Murad, Zahra; Sefton, Martin; Starmer, Chris - 2015
We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two confidence elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent of a bet based on performance. The former...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434351
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Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices
Gächter, Simon; Johnson, Eric J.; Herrmann, Andreas; … - 2007
endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and WTP from each of our 360 subjects (randomly selected customers of a car …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003502465
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How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?
Murad, Zahra; Sefton, Martin; Starmer, Chris - 2014
We examine confidence in own absolute performance using two elicitation procedures: selfreported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent of a bet based on performance. The former procedure reproduces the "hard-easy effect" (overconfidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344292
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the description - experience gap
Cubitt, Robin P.; Kopsacheilis, Orestis; Starmer, Chris - 2020
nature and implications for economic theory remain unclear, for reasons we explain. We present a new experiment which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416921
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the description - experience gap
Cubitt, Robin P.; Kopsacheilis, Orestis; Starmer, Chris - 2020
, the nature, causes and implications of the phenomenon for economic theory remain unclear. We present a new experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242996
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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition
Gächter, Simon; Huang, Lingbo; Sefton, Martin - 2017
Prowse experiment are compared, where the latter treatment involves a competition against Nature and removes the scope for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660754
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How do risk attitudes affect measured confidence?
Murad, Zahra; Sefton, Martin; Starmer, Chris - 2014 - This version: November 2014
We examine the relationship between confidence in own absolute performance and risk attitudes using two elicitation procedures: self-reported (non-incentivised) confidence and an incentivised procedure that elicits the certainty equivalent of a bet based on performance. The former procedure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439679
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Altruism, fast and slow? : evidence from a meta-analysis and a new experiment
Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy - 2018
results of a meta-study of the literature and a new experiment. Our meta-study is based on 19 experimental studies conducted … the direction of the effect of the intervention. We design a new experiment that is not vulnerable to this potential … intuitive and deliberative systems. Taken together, the findings of our meta-study and the new experiment offer little support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937178