We perform an experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about distributions. The beliefs relate to behavior … (mobile phone purchasing decisions, hypothetical restaurant choices), attitudes (happiness, politics) and observable … characteristics (height, weight) and are typically formed through real world experiences. We nd a powerful and ubiquitous bias in …

We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions … test two main hypotheses: (i) whether for items not perfectly observable, individuals suffer of some type of bias in these … beliefs; (ii) whether this bias would disappear for weight and height, when the information is perfectly available. We find a …

characteristics, this analysis takes into account individual media consumption as a determinant of opinion about immigration. Our … social and political matters through newspapers and radio have a better opinion on the economic impact of immigration …

characteristics, this analysis takes into account individual media consumption as a determinant of opinion about immigration. Our … social and political matters through newspapers and radio have a better opinion on the economic impact of immigration … caractéristiques socio-économiques classiques, cette analyse prend en compte l'exposition aux médias en tant que déterminant de l'opinion …

and individual levels. We find that individual attitudes to vaccination are based on rational appraisal of the situation …

In economic theory, utility depends on past, present and future outcomes. The experiment described in this paper … suggests that utility also depends on people's attitudes, and that it can easily be manipulated through these attitudes. The …