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Beliefs and Utility: Experimental Evidence on Preferences for Information

Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2016

Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future consumption have direct utilityconsequences. This gives rise to informational preferences, i.e., preferences over the timing and structure of information. Using a novel and...

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Preferences for consistency

Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2011

strength. We then present three experiments that study main predictions and implications of the model. The first is a simple …

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Self-Assessment: The Role of the Social Environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...

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Self-assessment : the role of the social environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

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Appropriating the Commons A Theoretical Explanation

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without …

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Did we overestimate the role of social preferences? The case of self-selected student samples

Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2010

phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self …-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who …

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Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Falk, Armin - 2017

This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent behavior, in the experiment, a subject can inflict a painful electric shock on another subject in return for money. We exogenously vary relative status in the realm of sexual...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Self-Assessment : The Role of the Social Environment

Falk, Armin - 2020

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Living in Two Neighborhoods - Social Interactions in the LAB

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2003

Field evidence suggests that agents belonging to the same group tend to behave similarly, i.e., behavior exhibits social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that avoids these problems. The main design feature is that each...

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