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From Helping Hand to Stumbling Block: The ChatGPT Paradox in Competency Experiment
Kim, Duk Gyoo; Moon, Ahram - 2024
We ran a controlled laboratory experiment to examine whether ChatGPT's aid can increase the participants' performance in three different—reading and writing, mathematical problem-solving, and computational thinking—tasks. We find that the math score significantly decreases with ChatGPT's...
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Bribing the Self
Gneezy, Uri; Saccardo, Silvia; Serra-Garcia, Marta; van … - 2020
privately evaluating the investments. Consistent with self-deception, learning about the incentive before evaluating the options …
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Audi Alteram Partem: An Experiment on Selective Exposure to Information
Montanari, Giovanni; Nunnari, Salvatore - 2023
We report the results of an experiment on selective exposure to information. A decision maker interested in learning …
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Deception Under Time Pressure: Conscious Decision or a Problem of Awareness?
Konrad, Kai A.; Lohse, Tim; Simon, Sven A. - 2017
Time is a crucial determinant of deception, since some misreporting opportunities come as a surprise and require an intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a subject must be aware of the misreporting opportunity....
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Peer effects in risk taking
Lahno, Amrei M.; Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2012
This paper examines the effect of peers on individual risk taking. In the absence of informational motives, we investigate why social utility concerns may drive peer effects. We test for two main channels: utility from payoff differences and from conforming to the peer. We show experimentally...
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The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance
Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2020
Ignorance enables individuals to act immorally. This is well known in policy circles, where there is keen interest in lowering moral ignorance. In this paper, we study the (in)elasticity of moral ignorance, with respect to monetary incentives, social norms messages and moral context. We propose...
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Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
Lambrecht, Marco; Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; … - 2021
We investigate in a laboratory setting whether revealing information on intelligence affects behavior in games with repeated interactions. In our experimental design we communicate information on the cognitive ability of both players. We use three stage games: Prisoners’ Dilemma (PD) and two...
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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments : An Experiment in a Company
Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using a sample of managers and employees from a...
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Reverse Bayesianism : Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events
Becker, Christoph K.; Melkonyan, Tigran; Proto, Eugenio; … - 2021
Bayesian updating is the dominant theory of learning. However, the theory is silent about how individuals react to …
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Behavioral New Keynesian Models : Learning vs. Cognitive Discounting
Meggiorini, Greta; Milani, Fabio - 2021
infinite-horizon learning, and subjective expectations with Euler-equation learning. Under rational expectations, the model … necessitates of large, possibly unrealistically so, degrees of myopia. The same result persists under infinite-horizon learning …, given that agents are still remarkably farsighted. But, under Euler-equation learning, the model can fit the data with only …
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