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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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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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decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we … processing in complex decision making …
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economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices …
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conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous … complex decision-making. We propose a model in which greater ability dispersion generates greater knowledge for a team, but …
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prior assignment of a primary reward can improve decision-making …
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. We disentangle these two elements empirically using data from a laboratory experiment. The main findings is that both …
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This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...
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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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