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The strength of weak leaders : an experiment on social influence and social learning in teams
Buechel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018
We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a … lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader … models of social learning to investigate the micro-level mechanisms. We find that overconfidence and conservatism contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794457
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Measuring responsiveness to feedback as a personal trait
Buser, Thomas; Gerhards, Leonie; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016
People typically update their beliefs about their own abilities too little in response to feed-back, a phenomenon known as "conservatism", and some studies suggest that they overweight good relative to bad signals ("asymmetry"). We measure individual conservatism and asymmetry in three tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483816
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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn : an Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation
Fischer, Mira - 2018
Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn – and this may explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926724
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True Overconfidence, Revealed Through Actions : An Experiment
Cheung, Stephen L. - 2017
We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962309
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Anti-Western Conspiracy Thinking and Expectations of Collusion : Evidence from Russia and China
Libman, Alexander - 2015
laboratory experiment to measure expectations of collusion and several survey items related to conspiracy thinking. Our survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023260
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The Fake News Effect : Experimentally Identifying Motivated Reasoning Using Trust in News
Thaler, Michael - 2021
Motivated reasoning posits that people distort how they process new information in the direction of beliefs they find more attractive. This paper introduces a novel experimental paradigm that is able to portably identify motivated reasoning from Bayesian updating across a variety of factual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215857
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Male, Female, or No Comment? Gender Information Disclosure in Trusting and Reciprocating
He, Yunwen; Lien, Jaimie W.; Zheng, Jie - 2021
experiment. Treatments vary by the type of reciprocity examined (direct, indirect) and information conditions (no information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245255
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True overconfidence, revealed through actions : an experiment
Cheung, Stephen L.; Johnstone, Lachlan - 2017
We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612902
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Teams promise but do not deliver
Nielsen, Kirby; Bhattacharya, Puja; Kagel, John H.; … - 2019
Individuals and two-person teams play a hidden - action trust game with pre - play communication. We replicate previous results for individuals that non-binding promises increase cooperation rates. But this does not extend to teams. Wh ile teams make non-binding promises to cooperate at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014362
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Confidence in knowledge or confidence in the ability to learn : an experiment on the causal effects of beliefs on motivation
Fischer, Mira; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions - namely beliefs about the level of human capital and beliefs about the ability to learn - and this may explain some of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798132