Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is … dramatic consequences. To test whether the overconfidence bias affects the decision of backcountry skiers to go on a ski trip …

improved the welfare of behavioral agents. We advance the notion of counter-biasing by demonstrating that one bias (present … bias) can be pit against another (choking at high stakes) to counteract the ill effects of the second. Our results …

Existing research has documented the confirmation bias in the domain of politics, but relatively little research has … examined the confirmation bias in religion. I developed a novel task in the religious domain and compare confirmation bias … "gun control" and the "existence of God". Results documented a confirmation bias in both information exposure and perceived …

The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive …. Because there is often systematic thought involved in generating the confirmation bias, deliberation tends to promote this … behavioral bias. Nevertheless, the importance of negative emotion in triggering the need for this bias is underappreciated. This …

-registered experiment with 1,260 subjects. In the first wave we vary the level of awareness of subjects' past dishonesty and explore the …

aversion, decoy effect, anchoring bias, endowment effect, and identifiable-victim bias. In our experiment, DMfO is DMfO …). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks … that measure the following biases: present-bias in time preferences, reflection effect in risk preferences, ambiguity …