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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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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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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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Social Preferences and Social Curiosity

Tasch, Weiwei; Houser, Daniel - 2018

Over the last two decades social preferences have been implicated in a wide variety of key economic behaviors. Here we investigate connections between social preferences and the demand for information about others’ economic decisions and outcomes, which we denote “social curiosity.” Our...

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Are income and consumption taxes ever really equivalent?: evidence from a real-effort experiment with real goods

Blumkin, Tomer; Ruffle, Bradley J.; Ganun, Yosef - 2008

The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and labor income (wage) taxes. We construct an environment in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this experimental framework to test whether a labor...

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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid: an experimental study

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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