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Optimistic, but not in control: Life-orientation and the theory of mixed control
Urbig, Diemo; Monsen, Erik - 2009
Why are some people more optimistic about their life than others? Literature on locus of control suggests that optimism is associated with the belief that one's life outcomes are controlled by internal factors, such as ability, instead of external factors, such as powerful others or chance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266644
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Optimistic, but not in Control: Life-Orientation and the Theory of mixed Control
Urbig, Diemo; Monsen, Erik - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Why are some people more optimistic about their life than others? Literature on locus of control suggests that optimism is associated with the belief that one’s life outcomes are controlled by internal factors, such as ability, instead of external factors, such as powerful others or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051053
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Learning in networks: An experimental study using stationary concepts
Berninghaus, Siegfried; Neumann, Thomas; Vogt, Bodo - 2011
Our study analyzes theories of learning for strategic interactions in networks. Participants played two of the 2 x 2 … games used by Selten and Chmura (2008) and in the comment by Brunner, Camerer and Goeree (2009). Every participant played … against four neighbors and could choose a different strategy against each of them. The games were played in two network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286462
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Learning in Networks - An Experimental Study using Stationary Concepts
Berninghaus, Siegried K.; Neumann, Thomas; Vogt, Bodo - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Our study analyzes theories of learning for strategic interactions in networks. Participants played two of the 2 x 2 … games used by Selten and Chmura (2008) and in the comment by Brunner, Camerer and Goeree (2009). Every participant played … against four neighbors and could choose a different strategy against each of them. The games were played in two network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318135
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Cheap talk and secret intentions in a public goods experiment
Güth, Werner; Levati, Maria Vittoria; Weiland, Torsten - 2007
In a public goods experiment, subjects can vary over a period of stochastic length two contribution levels: one is publicly observable (their cheap talk stated intention), while the other is not seen by the others (their secret intention). When the period suddenly stops, participants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275033
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The dark side of reciprocity
Montinari, Natalia - 2011
compensation scheme under both symmetric and asymmetric information about workers' actions, and we also derive conditions for our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281688
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Preferences-dependent learning in the Centipede game
Gamba, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015
learning process of individuals with different preference types (more and less pro-social) and coarse information regarding the … opponent's past behavior. We manipulate the quality of information feedbacks provided after each play. If subjects rely only on … earlier nodes due to prediction errors. Aggregate information release decreases heterogeneity of behavior by increasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348202
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On the evolution of preferences
Gamba, Astrid - 2011
A common feature of the literature on the evolution of preferences is that evolution favors nonmaterialistic preferences only if preference types are observable at least to some degree. We argue that this result is due to the assumption that in each state of the evolutionary dynamics some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281643
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On the Evolution of Preferences
Gamba, Astrid - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A common feature of the literature on the evolution of preferences is that evolution favors nonmaterialistic preferences only if preference types are observable at least to some degree. We argue that this result is due to the assumption that in each state of the evolutionary dynamics some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143374
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Sense of control affects investment behavior
King, Li King - 2010
Preference for control affects investment behavior. Participants of laboratory experiments invest different amount of money in a risky asset when face with two different methods of control which have identical payoff structure and probability distribution, but provide different sense of control....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271187