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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013

Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...

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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316868

The lure of authority: Motivation and incentive effects of power

Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - 2012

Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority- delegation game. Individuals often retain...

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2014

Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal-at least partly-from an assumed positive intrinsic...

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Market experience is a reference point in judgments of fairness

Herz, Holger; Taubinsky, Dmitry - 2013

People's desire for fair transactions can play an important role in negotiations, organizations, and markets. In this paper, we show that markets can also shape what people consider to be a fair transaction. We propose a simple and generally-applicable model of path-dependent fairness...

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316882

Bad boys: How criminal identity salience affects rule violation

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2015

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity …. This effect is specific to individuals who have a criminal identity, because an additional placebo experiment shows that …

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The effect of criminal identity on dishonesty

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Noll, Thomas - 2013

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … render their criminal identity more salient in their minds. An additional placebo experiment with regular citizens shows that …

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Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André; Schneider, Frédéric - 2019

tightly controlled laboratory labor market experiment demonstrates that prior employment information allows employers to … field experiment that varies the frequency of job changes in applicants' resumes and find that those with fewer job changes … receive substantially more callbacks from prospective employers. Third, a survey experiment with Human Resources professionals …

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Laboratory measure of cheating predicts misbehavior at school

Cohn, Alain; Maréchal, Michel André - 2015

We study the external validity of a standard laboratory measure of cheating. The results show that cheating in the lab significantly predicts classroom misbehavior in middle and high school students.

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