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a tempting and profitable action for the Receiver. The results from our online experiment (N = 1,512) show that Senders … or by suppressing negative information upon the Receiver's request. Understanding the decision to share inconvenient …
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works in anindividual decision experiment. Subjects are faced with a sequentialsearch problem. After extensive practice …
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decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment …This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and … lower than all possible payoffs of the decision maker. In the neutral context social referent and decision maker will always …
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We examine the risky choices of contestants in the popular TV game show “Deal or No Deal” and related classroom experiments. Contrary to the traditional view of expected utility theory, the choices can be explained in large part by previous outcomes experienced during the game. Risk aversion...
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-specific and decisionspecific variation in attention and verify our framework in an eye-tracking experiment on risky choice. We …
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We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision …
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We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students … more so when they performed poorly prior to the experiment. Next, we find that students in the raise treatment do not …
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Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...
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