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Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem - although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information...
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We use a ‘multi-player dictator game' (MDG) with ‘social information' about the contribution decision about a previous dictator to examine whether average contributions as well as the behavioural strategy adopted are affected by the first amount presented (the ‘anchor') using a sequential...
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Emotions have a strong impact on our everyday life, including our mental health, sleep pattern, overall well-being, and … judgment and decision making. Our paper is the first study to show that incidental emotions, i.e., emotions not related to the … have a lower willingness to comply with social norms after being primed with positive incidental emotions compared with …
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We study in an online, real-effort experiment how the bracketing of non-binding goals affects performance in a work …
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longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals have to complete a cumbersome task of unknown length. They are exposed to …
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for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’. In a longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals must complete a …
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-off between motivation and comparative disutility due to ex-ante outcome uncertainty. Narrow goal bracketing can be used as an …
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