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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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"It's Not about the Money. It's about Sending a Message!" Unpacking the Components of Revenge

Molnar, Andras; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, George - 2020

We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...

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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study

Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - 2021

Many committees—juries, political task forces, etc.—spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions governed by individuals and groups and compare how voting...

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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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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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Giving in the Face of Risk

Cettolin, Elena; Riedl, Arno; Tran, Giang - 2016

The decision how to share resources with others often needs to be taken under uncertainty on its allocational consequences. Although risk preferences are likely important, existing research is silent about how social and risk preferences interact in such situations. In this paper we provide...

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Does revealing personality data affect prosocial behavior?

Drouvelis, Michalis; Georgantzis, Nikolaos - 2019

Many modern organisations collect data on individuals’ personality traits as part of their human resource selection processes. We test experimentally whether revealing information on personality data impacts on pro-social behaviour as measured in a one-shot modified dictator game and a public...

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