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boundaries between psychology and economics. Noting that behavioral economics seems still under the spell of the rational choice … economics" might mirror the rise of cognitive psychology" without endangering the advantages of the division of labor and of …
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Recent research is exploring the case for cognitive or post-decision dissonance using the free-choice paradigm of Brehm (1956). Participants are repeatedly faced with a choice between items that they have given the same rating of liking, two items at a time, and it is found that items not chosen...
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Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate they have voted for. Following Mullainathan and Washington (2009), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve...
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Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate they have voted for. Following Mullainathan and Washington (2009), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve...
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This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share of the Creative Class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places and rural regions may also have a considerable proportion of...
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We analyze the regional distribution and the effect of people in creative occupations based on data for more than 450 regions in eight European countries. The geographic distribution of the creative class is highly uneven. The creative class is not attracted to highly urbanized regions per se,...
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Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate policy. Creative metropolises base … metropolises. Using data from the US Census Bureau and research on creativity measures, this case study concludes that Baltimore …
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Creativity is changing the way cities approach economic development and formulate po-licy. Creative metropolises base … metropolises. Using data from the US Census Bureau and research on creativity measures, this case study concludes that Baltimore …
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We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …
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&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research …. Our study is an attempt to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far creativity, analytical skills … participants' performance in the innovation games is in fact related to their creativity, risk tolerance and self-control. Other …
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