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On whom would I want to depend; Humans or nature?
Farjam, Mike - 2015
We study in an experiment whether humans prefer to depend on decisions of other humans (social uncertainty) or states … other humans. This is the first experiment that studies social uncertainty that does not derive from a strategic situation …
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The endowment effect in games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Sonnemans, Joep - 2015
experiment, we study the endowment effect in lotteries with the same payoffs as the games in the first part. Our findings provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339153
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235856
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Willpower depletion and framing effects
Haan, Thomas de; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2013
We investigate whether depleting people's cognitive resources (or "willpower") affects the degree to which they are susceptible to framing effects. Recent research in social psychology and economics has suggested that willpower is a resource that can be temporarily depleted and that a depleted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793156
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Determinants of trust : the role of personal experiences
Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2019
Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals' inclination to trust others?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987073
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On peer effects : contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior and the role of social cohesion
Dimant, Eugen - 2017 - This Version: April 2017
Little is known about the underlying mechanisms of behavioral contagion, in particular with respect to differences in contagion of pro- versus anti-social behavior. Our principal contribution is the use of a novel experimental approach that enables us to analyze the contagion of behavior under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660748
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Over-confidence and low-cost heuristics : an experimental investigation of choice behavior
Cicognani, Simona; Mittone, Luigi - 2014
order to disentangle different choice dynamics, they devise a laboratory experiment with a novel experimental task in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425055
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Imperfect recall and time inconsistencies : an experimental test of the absentminded driver “paradox”
Levati, M. Vittoria; Uhl, Matthias; Zultan, Ro'i - 2010
. -- imperfect recall ; absentmindedness ; dynamic inconsistency ; experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003980493
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Paradoxes and mechanisms for choice under risk by James C. Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj, and Ulrich Schmidt
Cox, James C.; Sadiraj, Vjollca; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2011
hypothesis or the independence axiom. We report two experiments with 710 subjects. Experiment 1 provides the first simple test of … the isolation hypothesis. Experiment 2 is a crossed design with six payoff mechanisms and five lottery pairs that can … implications of alternative decision theories. Experiment 2 provides tests of the isolation hypothesis and four paradoxes. It also …
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Are you risk averse over other people's money?
Chakravarty, Sujoy; Harrison, Glenn W.; Haruvy, Ernan E.; … - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 901-913
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