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Power and the privilege of clarity : an analysis of bargaining power and information transmission
Groot Ruiz, Adrian de; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2012
We provide a game theoretic analysis of how power shapes the clarity of communication. We analyze information … by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386160
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Anticipatory anxiety and wishful thinking
Engelmann, Jan; Lebreton, Maël; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2019
It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs or "wishful thinking". However, there is little direct causal evidence for this effect. In our experiment, participants perform a visual pattern recog- nition task where some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026094
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Measuring responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait
Buser, Thomas; Gerhards, Leonie; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as "conservatism", and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals ("asymmetry"). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483816
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Persuasion, justification and the communication of social impact
Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018
We experimentally investigate strategic communication about the impact of prosocial actions, which is central to policy … communication in moral domains, and help understand the fraught nature of political discussions about social impact. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895755
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Committees of experts in the lab
Renes, Sander; Visser, Bauke - 2018
cheap-talk communication with evaluators. We use the chat among committee members to learn about, e.g., their beliefs about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895939
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Statistics and common sense
Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Magnus, Jan R.; Yoo, Donghoon - 2021
Common sense is a dynamic concept and it is natural that our (statistical) common sense lags behind the development of statistical science. What is not so easy to understand is why common sense lags behind as much as it does. We conduct a survey among Japanese students and try to understand why...
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Born that way : beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in generating performance inequality. In an incentivized...
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Who can predict their own Demise? : accuracy of longevity expectations by education and cognition
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Erdogan Ciftci, Esen; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2015
Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...
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Can communication mitigate strategic delays in investment timing?
Mermer, Ayse; Onderstal, Sander; Sonnemans, Joep - 2023
how communication mitigates this free-riding problem in an investment-timing game. In our baseline investment-timing game …. If more investors invest at the same time, they share the costs. In the communication treatment, subjects can freely … communicate before choosing the investment time. We find that in groups of two players, communication increases cooperation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014299600
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Deception and self-deception
Schwardman, Peter; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
We experimentally investigate the determinants of overconfidence and test the hypothesis, advanced by Robert Trivers, that overconfidence serves to more effectively persuade or deceive others. After performing a cognitively challenging task, half of our subjects are informed about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441641