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when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …
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Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …
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Financial decisions, be they related to asset building or debt management, require the capacity to do calculations, including some complex ones. But how numerate are individuals, in particular when it comes to calculations related to financial decisions? Studies and surveys implemented in both...
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Despite decades of research on heuristics and biases, empirical evidence on the effect of large incentives - as present in relevant economic decisions - on cognitive biases is scant. This paper tests the effect of incentives on four widely documented biases: base rate neglect, anchoring, failure...
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result from judgments based on imprecise (and noisy) mental representations of the decision situation. In this model, risk … aversion results from a sort of perceptual bias--but one that represents an optimal decision rule, given the limitations of the … lotteries, based on other evidence regarding numerical cognition, and test its ability to explain the choice frequencies that we …
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One literature documents a significant, black-white gap in average test scores, while another finds a substantial narrowing of the gap during the 1980's, and stagnation in convergence after. We use two data sources -- the Long Term Trends NAEP and AFQT scores for the universe of applicants to...
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. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …
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for misinformation through the lens of augmenting critical thinking skills in a field experiment during the 2022 …
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decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions … decision accuracies over time. Furthermore, groups using majority rule yield especially hasty and inaccurate decisions …
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who were randomly assigned to different temperatures in a laboratory. We find that most dimensions of decision-making are …
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