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the intensity of ties between responders impacts the decisions, beliefs, and emotions of both the responders and the take … and expected take rate is a much better predictor of experienced emotions and destruction than the difference between the …
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take risks, with a special focus on the role of affect. While the importance of anticipatory emotions has so far been only … investment task. Moreover, emotions were explicitly measured, including anticipatory emotions experienced during the waiting …-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants' preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly …
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reciprocation. In this study, physiological and self-report measures were employed to investigate the role of emotions, using the …
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We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles …
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Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives – as present in relevant economic decisions – on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely documented biases: base rate neglect, anchoring,...
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Overbidding in second-price auctions (SPAs) has been shown to be persistent and associated with cognitive ability. We study experimentally to what extent cross-game learning can reduce overbidding in SPAs, taking into account cognitive skills. Employing an order-balanced design, we use...
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In an experiment that elicits subjects’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the outcome of a lottery, we confirm the fourfold …
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We propose and experimentally test a theory of strategic behavior in which players are cognitively imprecise and perceive a fundamental parameter with noise. We focus on 2 x 2 coordination games, which generate multiple equilibria when perception is precise. When adding a small amount of...
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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge … that standard results of litigation contests change significantly when emotions are taken into account. We show that … emotions may increase or decrease individual and total equilibrium contest effort, introduce an asymmetry into the contest, and …
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