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This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
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Experimental research on decision making under risk has until now always employed choice data in order to evaluate the empirical performance of expected utility and the alternative nonexpected utility theories. The present paper performs a similar analysis which relies on pricing data instead of...
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Experimental research on decision making under risk has until now always employed choice data in order to evaluate the empirical performance of expected utility and the alternative nonexpected utility theories. The present paper performs a similar analysis which relies on pricing data instead of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278003
This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
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find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first half of a public good contribution experiment, whereas that of …
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predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …
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child, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this are. We conduct a novel between-subject lab experiment in …
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settings. We first test whether scores on the Big Five are related to performance in our experiment, and second how this is …
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We analyze how subjects’ self-assessment depends on whether its accuracy is observable to others. We find that women downgrade their selfassessment given observability while men do not. Women avoid the shame they may have if others observe that they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do...
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social dilemmas. We subject our model to data from an experimental public goods game and a risk experiment, and we measure …
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