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regional accents? This paper reports a laboratory experiment where we address this question. Participants in our experiment …
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We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005)...
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This paper reports results from a unique two-stage experiment designed to examine the spillover effects of optimism and …
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This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …
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). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks …We examine whether biases identified in the behavioral-economics literature apply in decision-making for others (DMfO … aversion, decoy effect, anchoring bias, endowment effect, and identifiable-victim bias. In our experiment, DMfO is DMfO …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …
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problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and … antisocial behavior. Choices in both environments respond to incentives (i.e., the relative price of the ethical decision …
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People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their perception of their own ability will choose tasks that are not sufficiently challenging. Overestimation...
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and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision making, we first … have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic … illustrate key physiological and psychological pathways between air pollution and cognition. We then document the main patterns …
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