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"The devil is in the details" : sex differences in simple bargaining games
León-Mejía, Ana (contributor); Miller, Luis M. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003554017
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If you are so smart, why arent́ you an entrepreneur? : returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796310
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Psychology and economics rather than psychology versus economics : cultural differences but no barriers!
Brandstätter, Hermann; Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut - 2008
During the last three decades the ascent of behavioral economics clearly helped to bring down artificial disciplinary boundaries between psychology and economics. Noting that behavioral economics seems still under the spell of the rational choice tradition and, indirectly, of behaviorism we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809939
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669956
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Do i really want to know? : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2010
explained by avoiding cognitive dissonance as in Konow (2000). Our experiment's choice data is in line with this approach. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746951
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The effect of financial incentives and task-specific cognitive abilities on task performance
Rydval, Ondřej - 2011
; Performance ; Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349746
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An experiment on experimental instructions
Bigoni, Maria; Dragone, Davide - 2011
instructions' format affects the participants' understanding of the experiment, their speed of play and their experimental behavior …. We show that longer instructions do not significantly improve the subjects' understanding of the experiment; on …-screen instructions shorten average decision times with respect to on-paper instructions, and requiring forced inputs reduces waiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349750
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More than outcomes : a cognitive dissonance-based explanation of other-regarding behavior
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2011
model based on cognitive dissonance that focuses on the importance of self-image. An experiment (a dictator game variant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129721
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475637
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Is observed other-regarding behavior always genuine?
Matthey, Astrid (contributor); Regner, Tobias (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003648081