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Ambiguity and excuse-driven behavior in charitable giving
Garcia, Thomas; Massoni, Sébastien; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a donation - rather than its benefits - are ambiguous. However, the importance of … excuse-driven behavior is comparable under ambiguity and under risk. Individuals exploit any type of uncertainty as an excuse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152068
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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
Garcia, Thomas - 2018
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. In a laboratory experiment, we show that individuals use …-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a donation - rather than its benefits - are ambiguous. However, the importance of … excuse-driven behavior is comparable under ambiguity and under risk. Individuals exploit any type of uncertainty as an excuse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907436
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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
Garcia, Thomas - 2019
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. In a laboratory experiment, we show that individuals use …-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a donation -rather than its benefits- are ambiguous. However, the importance of … excuse-driven behavior is comparable under ambiguity and under risk. Individuals exploit any type of uncertainty as an excuse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897446
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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
Garcia, Thomas - 2020
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …-driven behavior is more pronounced when the costs of a donation – rather than its benefits – are ambiguous. However, the importance of … excuse-driven behavior is comparable under ambiguity and under risk. Individuals exploit any type of uncertainty as an excuse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843721
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The ratio bias phenomenon: fact or artifact?
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers - has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277022
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The Ratio Bias Phenomenon : Fact or Artifact?
Lefebvre, Mathieu - 2009
The ratio bias – according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers – has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154975
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The ratio bias phenomenon : fact or artifact?
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009
The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers - has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910098
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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior Under Risk in and Outside of the Laboratory?
Charness, Gary - 2019
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these measures can explain two different types of behavior: (i) behavior in laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868010
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Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior Under Risk In and Outside of the Laboratory?
Charness, Gary - 2019
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these measures can explain two different types of behavior: (i) behavior in laboratory risky financial decisions, and (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868969
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Motivated memory in dictator games
Saucet, Charlotte; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018
The memory people have of their past behavior is one of the main sources of information about themselves. To study whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play binary dictator games and then have to recall the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959856