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A note on motivated cognition and discriminatory beliefs

Stötzer, Lasse; Zimmermann, Florian - 2022

away money from the group. Our results speak to a long-standing debate on the causes of racism and discrimination and …In this note, we provide evidence that motivated reasoning can be a source of discriminatory beliefs. We employ a …

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Motivated memory in economics : a review

Amelio, Andrea; Zimmermann, Florian - 2022

In this article, we review the economics literature on the motivated recall of information. Summarizing both theoretical and empirical work, we highlight key results this literature has produced. We also discuss methodological issues when studying motivated memory. We conclude by highlighting...

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A note on salience of own preferences and the consensus effect

Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2023

the prevalence of their own values and preferences when forming beliefs about others' values and preferences, depends on … the salience of own preferences. We manipulate salience by varying the order of elicitation of preferences and beliefs …

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Overconfidence and prejudice

Heidhues, Paul; Kőszegi, Botond; Strack, Philipp - 2024

' successes. In our model, both the agent's information and his beliefs are multi-dimensional, allowing us to study interactions … settings. Third, the agent's beliefs are subject to "bias substitution," whereby forces that decrease his bias regarding one … multi-dimensional beliefs possible, we develop tools for studying learning under high-dimensional misspecified models. …

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The politicized pandemic : ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19

Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022

We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that an experimental measure of prosociality correlates positively with adherence to protective...

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The roots of cooperation

Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021

Understanding the roots of human cooperation among strangers is of great importance for solving pressing social dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we examine...

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Health externalities and policy: the role of social preferences

Alfaro, Laura; Faia, Ester; Lamersdorf, Nora; Saidi, Farzad - 2021

Social preferences facilitate the internalization of health externalities, for example by reducing mobility during a pandemic. We test this hypothesis using mobility data from 258 cities worldwide alongside experimentally validated measures of social preferences. Controlling for time-varying...

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Meta-nudging honesty : past, present, and future of the research frontier

Dimant, Eugen; Shalv, Shaul - 2022

Achieving successful behavior change via nudging is hard. This is particularly true when choice architects attempt to change behavior that is collectively harmful but individually beneficial. In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art of the behavior change literature to assess both robust...

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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021 - This version: 4 March 2021

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...

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Concentration bias in intertemporal choice

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Gerhardt, Holger; Riener, Gerhard - 2021

Many intertemporal trade-offs are unbalanced: while the advantages of options are concen- trated in a few periods, the disadvantages are dispersed over numerous periods. We provide novel experimental evidence for “concentration bias”, the tendency to overweight advantages that are...

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