Our study compares individual and team bidding in standard auction formats: first-price, second-price and ascending …-price (English) auctions with independent private values. In a laboratory experiment, we find that individuals overbid more than …

-gender teams perform better. We investigate the two explanations in a lab experiment with students and in an online experiment with …

discrimination. To reveal the limitations of this taxonomy and enrich it psychologically, we design a hiring experiment that rules … the specific forms of discrimination identified in our experiment. …

In an artefactual field experiment, we implemented a crowdfunding campaign for an institute's summer party and compared … contribution framing responded more strongly to reward thresholds and suggestions. An additional survey experiment on MTurk …

discrimination. To enrich this taxonomy, we design a hiring experiment that rules out both of these sources of discrimination along … clearly they reveal the decision-maker's gender bias. Our analysis highlights the central role played by contextual features …

. Using a hiring experiment, we rule out taste-based discrimination by design and test for the presence of two types of belief …

reference group. In a novel experiment, I vary whether or not members of a reference group obtain relative performance …

We test the effects of dual processing differences in both individual traits and decision states on risk taking. In an … experiment with a large representative sample (N = 1,832), we vary whether risky choices are induced to be based on either … emotion or reason, while simultaneously measuring individual decision-making traits. Our results show that decision …

We analyze how the team formation process influences the ability composition and performance of teams, showing how self …-selection and random assignment affect team performance for different tasks in two natural field experiments. We identify the … collaboration intensity of the task as the key driver of the effect of self-selection on team performance. We find that when the …