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Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion: an experimental investigation

Fellner, Gerlinde; Sutter, Matthias - 2008

We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures of myopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment …

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Kirchkamp, Oliver; Strobel, Christina - 2018

Humans make decisions jointly with others. They share responsibility for the outcome with their interaction partners. Today, more and more often the partner in a decision is not another human but, instead, a machine. Here we ask whether the type of the partner, machine or human, affects our...

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The Causal Effect of Cognitive Abilities on Economic Behavior: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load

Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We identify the causal effect of cognitive abilities on economic behavior in an experimental setting. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, we identify the causal effect of working memory on subjects' forecasting performance, while also accounting for the effect of other...

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Causes, consequences, and cures of myopic loss aversion - An experimental investigation

Fellner, Gerlinde; Sutter, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We examine in an experiment the causes, consequences and possible cures of myopic loss aversion (MLA) for investment …

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Thinking in Chinese vs. thinking in English : Social preference and risk attitudes of multicultural minds

Li, King King - 2010

This paper investigates whether language priming activates different cultural identities and norms associated with the … language communicated; bilingual subjects are given Chinese instructions in the Chinese treatment and English instructions in … hypothesis that languages are associated with cultural frames and that communicating in a particular language increases the …

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Reciprocity under moral wiggle room: Is it a preference or a constraint?

Regner, Tobias - 2016

We analyze reciprocal behavior when moral wiggle room exists. Dana et al. (2007) show that giving in a dictator game is only partly due to distributional preferences as the giving rate drops when situational excuses for selfish behavior are provided. Our binary trust game closely follows their...

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More than outcomes: The role of self-image in other-regarding behavior

Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2014

We conduct a modified dictator game in order to analyze the role self-image concerns play in other-regarding behavior. While we generally follow Konow (2000), a cognitive dissonance-based model of other-regarding behavior in dictator games, we relax one of its assumptions as we allow for...

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