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Are entrepreneurs more optimistic and overconfident than managers and employees?

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015

others. However, the same holds true for top managers. In this lab-in-the-field experiment we directly compare the scores of … entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … when bad events occur. For incentivized measures of overconfidence we find no difference between entrepreneurs and managers …

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Spoiling the party : experimental evidence on the willingness to transmit inconvenient ethical information

Mol, Jantsje M.; Soraperra, Ivan; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2023

Information about the consequences of our consumption choices can be unwelcome, and people sometimes avoid it. We investigate a situation where one person possesses information that is inconvenient for another, and study why and when they decide to transmit that information. We introduce a...

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Self-confidence and strategic deterrence

Charness, Gary; Rustichini, Aldo; Ven, Jeroen van de - 2011

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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?

Buser, Thomas - 2016

I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At...

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The endowment effect in games

Drouvelis, Michalis; Sonnemans, Joep - 2015

We study experimentally whether the endowment effect survives in a social and strategic context. Participants are asked for their Willingness-to-Accept (WTA) or Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) to play a series of 2x2 games. In the second part of the experiment, we study the endowment effect in...

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Are we overdiagnosing mental illnesses? : evidence from randomly assigned doctors

Bos, Marieke; Hertzberg, Andrew; Liberman, Andres - 2021 - This draft: August 2021

Almost two in 10 adults in the U.S. and Europe are, at any moment in time, diagnosed with a mental illness. This paper asks whether mental illness is over- (or under-) diagnosed, by looking at its causal effect on individuals at the margin of diagnosis. We follow all Swedish men born between...

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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms

Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016

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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Why do oaths work? : image concerns and credibility in promise keeping

Kingsuwankul, Sorravich; Tergiman, Chloe; Villeval, … - 2023

We use a laboratory experiment to understand the channels through which honesty oaths can affect behavior and credibility. Using a game with asymmetric information in a financial market setting that captures some important features of advisor-investor interactions, we manipulate the common...

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The behavioral impact of emotions in a power to take game : an experimental study

Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 1999

The power to take game is a simple two player game where players arerandomly divided into pairs consisting of a take authority and responder.Both players in each pair have earned an own income in an individual realeffort decision-making experiment preceding the take game. The gameconsists of two...

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Handedness predicts social preferences : evidence connecting the lab to the field

Buser, Thomas - 2010

It is now generally accepted that some people are more altruistic, more trusting, or more reciprocal than others, but it is still unclear whether these differences are innate or a consequence of nurture. We analyse the correlation between handedness and social preferences in the lab and find...

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