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dimension for dishonest decision-making and for the cognition process of the chance to deceive. We conduct a laboratory … experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition … intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a …
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-rational inferences, drive herd behavior. In Experiment 1, unobserved, whose actions remain private, learn from the public actions made in …
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In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German academic economists, we first show that research...
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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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when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …
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Algorithm-based decision support systems play an increasingly important role in decisions involving exploration tasks … exploration and exploitation, which can be highly dependent on individual preferences. In an online experiment, we study whether … rather than exploitation, and model the participants' decision-making processes using a learning model comparable to the …
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impact on moral behavior. The choice context in the experiment is whether subjects inict a painful electric shock on another … their own face on the decision screen in a real-time video feed. In the two control conditions, subjects see either no video …
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. -- innovation ; entrepreneurship ; overconfidence ; experiment …
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, we run an experiment to test the model’s main predictions in a context where the researcher knows the true underlying …
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We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...
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