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Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice
Andersson, Ola; Ingebretsen Carlson, Jim; Wengström, Erik - 2016
Several recent models of choice build on the idea that decision makers are more likely to choose an option if its attributes stand out compared to the attributes of the available alternatives. One example is the model of focusing by Köszegi and Szeidl (2013) where decision makers focus...
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Limited attention and status quo bias
Dean, Mark; Kibris, Özgür; Masatlioglu, Yusufcan - 2014
changing preferences and focusing attention. The resulting Limited Attention Status Quo Bias model can explain both the finding … of decision avoidance are inconsistent with the latter. We report the results of laboratory experiments which show that … both attention and preference channels are necessary to explain the impact of status quo on choice. …
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Age Effects and Heuristics in Decision Making
Besedeš, Tibor; Deck, Cary; Sarangi, Sudipta; Shor, Mikhael - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2009
We examine in controlled experiments how individuals make choices when faced withmultiple options. The choice tasks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302527
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576929
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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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Signaling moral values through consumption
Schneider, Florian H. - 2020
laboratory experiments, I provide causal evidence that demand for a product is lower if its customer base consists of individuals …
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Signaling ideology through consumption
Schneider, Florian H. - 2022
"undesirable" values. In laboratory experiments and surveys, I provide causal evidence that consumption can be diagnostic of …
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The Inelastic Demand for Affirmative Action
Getik, Demid; Islam, Marco; Samahita, Margaret - 2021
We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about …, despite successfully altering beliefs about expected productivity differences. Our results suggest that AA choice reflects a …
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The effect of information on gender differences in competitiveness: experimental evidence
Ertac, Seda; Szentes, Balázs - 2011
An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being more likely to choose competitive incentive schemes, even when factors such as ability and risk aversion are controlled for. This paper examines the effect of information on the...
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