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In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...
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Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
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This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and pessimism. In stage 1, we induce optimism or pessimism onto subjects by randomly assigning a high or low piece rate for performing a cognitive task. We find that participants...
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We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-person real-effort competition (Gill and...
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects and check whether this manipulation influences their effort provision …-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations are low …
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positive cases in the future. The bias is positively correlated with optimistic expectations about the future macroeconomic … interventions decrease risky investment and help moderate future economic expectations through the reduction in EGB. The results … economic expectations …
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relevant events. We conduct trust game experiments where the amount sent back by the second player (trustee) is exogenously …
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reasonably unforeseeable, in two pre-registered experiments that entail unforeseen events. We argue that participants deviate …
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We use economic experiments to examine the nature of relational trading under a menu of incomplete contracts ranging …
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, while they are in line with recent models that focus on anger as the result of the frustration of expectations …
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