We conduct an experiment to examine how repeated exposure to earnings notifications and notification checking mode affect investors' reactions to managers' strategic positive emphasis in the title of a disclosure when firm performance is mixed. We find that a title with (versus without) a...

The triangle model of responsibility (Schlenker, Britt, Pennington, Murphy, and Doherty 1994) predicts that the extent that investors hold management responsible for an adverse event is jointly determined by the links among three elements—management, the adverse event, and the relevant...

Regulators express concerns with investors’ unquestioning reliance on analysts’ recommendations, which prior research has shown to be associated with lower trading returns. Thus, regulators have published investor guides advising investors to conduct independent research and required analyst...

We conduct three experiments to investigate whether and why investors rely on analysts' stock recommendations, and how to mitigate potential overreliance. In Experiments 1 and 2, we find that investors who receive a buy (sell) recommendation judge a company to have higher (lower) investment...

We report the results of an experiment which shows that investors' earnings- and investment-related judgments are jointly influenced by their investment position (long versus short), the news valence of guidance issued by management, and the amount of ambiguity in the guidance. Prior research...