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Tearing the veil of privacy law : an experiment on chilling effects and the right to be forgotten
Hermstrüwer, Yoan; Dickert, Stephan - 2013
Privacy law relies on the argument that consent does not entail any relevant impediments for the liberty of the consenting individual. Challenging this argument, we experimentally investigate whether consent to the publication of personal information in cyberspace entails self-coercion on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781369
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Anchoring : a valid explanation for biased forecasts when rational predictions are easily accessible and well incentivized?
Meub, Lukas; Proeger, Till; Bizer, Kilian - 2013
Behavioral biases in forecasting, particularly the lack of adjustment from current values and the overall clustering of forecasts, are increasingly explained as resulting from the anchoring heuristic. Nonetheless, the classical anchoring experiments presented in support of this interpretation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777356
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Everyday econometricians : selection neglect and overoptimism when learning from others
Barron, Kai; Huck, Steffen; Jehiel, Philippe - 2019
There are many important decision problems where learning through experimentation is costly or impossible. In these situations, individuals may try to learn from observing the outcomes of others who have made similar decisions. Often, however, information about others comprises a selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982107
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The Sidney Siegel Tradition : The Divergence of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the End of the 1980s
Svorenčík, Andrej - 2016
Over two days in February 1988, several key experimental economists and cognitive psychologists met to explore the possibilities of joint research promoted by the Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations under the rubric behavioral economics. The original vision that the meeting could open a line of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993985
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Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Honesty and Dishonesty : A Stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell
Colzani, Paola; Michailidou, Georgia; Santos-Pinto, Luís - 2021
, we develop and execute a laboratory experiment to study the diffusion of actions with both, positive and negative moral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214725
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Multi-Media Learning and Experimental Economics Instructions
Candreva, Christopher - 2020
This paper examines the influence of pre-experiment tasks on subject understanding. It used a 2x2 design varying the … type of instructions and whether or not the pre-experiment quiz was incentivized. The Standard instructions were written …-Media Learning literature, which aims to find ways to maximize subject understanding from instruction. After the pre-experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849403
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The Sidney Siegel tradition : the divergence of behavioral and experimental economics at the end of the 1980s
Svorenčík, Andrej - 2016
Over two days in February 1988, several key experimental economists and cognitive psychologists met to explore the possibilities of joint research promoted by the Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations under the rubric behavioral economics. The original vision that the meeting could open a line of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606828
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Using ethical dilemmas to predict antisocial choices with real payoff consequences : an experimental study
Dickinson, David L.; Masclet, David - 2018
problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872604
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Large effects of small cues : priming selfish economic decisions
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024 - Revised: April 21, 2024
Many experimental studies report that economics students tend to act more selfishly than students of other disciplines, a finding that received widespread public and professional attention. Two main explanations that the existing literature offers for the differences found in the behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014531967
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Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences : An Experimental Study
Dickinson, David L. - 2018
problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning experiment that can inform our understanding of moral preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915721