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Stress and coping : an economic approach
Wälde, Klaus - 2015
frequency of uncontrolled coping - emotional outbursts - as a function of an individualś personality and environment. Outbursts …
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Do self-committers mind commitment by others? : an experiment on weak paternalism
Uhl, Matthias - 2010
Weak paternalism commits protégés to their own plans. This experiment addresses the question of whether protégés judge weakly paternalistic acts primarily by means of their consequences or on principle grounds. Subjects receive a reward for showing up to the laboratory early the next morning...
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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self …-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self … individuals of the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP). We find a significant association between personality traits and the …
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Entrepreneurship and cultural creativity
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and personal creativity as a characteristic of self-employed individuals; second, selfemployment in professions that can be classified as belonging to the "Creative Class" as...
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Challenging the intrapersonal empathy gap : an experiment with self-commitment power
Uhl, Matthias - 2011
. The concept of the empathy gap suggests that the initial choice represents a misprediction of future preferences. However …, it might alternatively be based on a well understood disagreement with future preferences. In this sense, people would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990904
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On individual cursedness : how personality shapes individuals' sensitivity to incur a winner's curse
Chlaß, Nadine - 2011
individual characteristic -individuals' personality traits. Personality traits explain individuals' initial cursedness, and also … govern whether individuals unlearn, or instead, acquire the curse. I review biological evidence on how personality influences … individuals' handling of information to explain why personality matters here. -- asymmetric information ; winner's curse …
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Assessing mental models via recording the decision deliberations of pairs
Berninghaus, Siegfried; Güth, Werner; Klempt, Charlotte; … - 2013
Two participants have to decide jointly, with the discussions preceding their choice being video/audiotaped. For two tasks, one with and one without strategic interaction, we refer to obvious reasoning styles as mental models. The videotaped discussions are analyzed according to which mental...
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Why consumers pay voluntarily : evidence from online music
Regner, Tobias - 2010
positive determinant for payments around the recommended price. -- social preferences ; other-regarding behaviour ; music …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747635
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Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? : an experimental study about self-awareness in status- seeking behavior
Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2012
This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
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On social identity, subjective expectations, and the costs of control
Riener, Gerhard; Wiederhold, Simon - 2011
Controlling employees can have severe consequences in situations that are not fully contractible. However, the perception of control may be contingent on the nature of the relationship between principal and agent. We, therefore, propose a principal-agent model of control that takes into account...
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