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Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking
Engelmann, Jan; Lebreton, Maël; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2019
It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs …
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Do reciprocators exploit or resist moral wiggle room? : an experimental analysis
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015
By now there is substantial experimental evidence that people make use of "moral wiggle room" (Dana et al., 2007), that is, they tend to exploit moral excuses for selfish behavior. However, this evidence is limited to dictator games. In our experiment, a trust game variant, we study whether...
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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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Can a bonus overcome moral hazard? : experimental evidence from markets for expert services
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - 2018
Interactions between players with private information and opposed interests are often prone to bad advice and inefficient outcomes, e.g. markets for financial or health care services. In a deception game we investigate experimentally which factors could improve advice quality. Besides advisor...
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Fair shares and selective attention
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide; van der Weele, Joël J. - 2021
understand the formation of such views and find levers to affect them, we study the role of attention. In a large online … experiment, we investigate how subjects allocate their visual attention to the contributions of merit and luck in the generation … less attention to information about true merit and retain more of the surplus. Both the attentional and behavioral patterns …
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Deception and Self-Deception
Schwardman, Peter; van der Weele, Joël - 2016
performance in a structured face-to-face interaction. Privately elicited beliefs show that informed participants are 50% more …
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Overweighting private information : three measures, one bias?
Fellner, Gerlinde; Krügel, Sebastian - 2010
Overweighting private information is often used to explain various detrimental decisions. In behavioral economics and finance, it is usually modeled as a direct consequence of misperceiving signal reliability. This bias is typically dubbed overconfidence and linked to the judgment literature in...
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Imperfect recall and time inconsistencies : an experimental test of the absentminded driver “paradox”
Levati, M. Vittoria; Uhl, Matthias; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010
Absentmindedness is a special case of imperfect recall which according to Piccione and Rubinstein (1997a) leads to time inconsistencies. Aumann, Hart and Perry (1997a) question their argument and show how dynamic inconsistencies can be resolved. The present paper explores this issue from a...
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A Flexible Test for Present Bias and Time Preferences using Land-Lease Contracts
Gautier, Pieter A.; van Vuuren, Aico - 2011
When agents have present bias, they discount more between now and thenext period than between period t ( 1) and t + 1. How fast the future discount rate (evaluated today) decays is an empirical question. Weshow that the discount function can be non-parametrically identified withcontracts that...
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Are we overdiagnosing mental illnesses? Evidence from randomly assigned doctors
Bos, Marieke; Hertzberg, Andrew; Liberman, Andres - 2021
Almost two in 10 adults in the U.S. and Europe are, at any moment in time, diagnosed with a mental illness. This paper asks whether mental illness is over- (or under-) diagnosed, by looking at its causal effect on individuals at the margin of diagnosis. We follow all Swedish men born between...
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