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Perceived Motives and Reciprocity
Orhun, A. Yesim - 2017
In reciprocal interactions, both genuine kindness and self-interested material gain may motivate socially beneficial actions. The paper presents results from two experiments that distinguish the role of perceived motives in reciprocal decision making from the role of outcomes or perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954733
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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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Attracted but Unsatisfied : The Effects of Arousing Content on Television Consumption Choices
Stanca, Luca - 2013
satisfaction and is thus responsible for sub-optimal choices. In our experiment, subjects can choose among three programs during a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092888
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Attracted But Unsatisfied : The Effects of Arousing Content on Television Consumption Choices
Stanca, Luca; Gui, Marco; Gallucci, Marcello - 2013
satisfaction and is thus responsible for sub-optimal choices. In our experiment, subjects can choose among three programs during a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183555
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Observational Learning and Conformity : Experimental Evidence
Sasaki, Shunichiro - 2015
People often conform to others either pro-socially or self-interestedly. By conducting modified dictator game experiments where subjects observe others’ behaviors, this study analyzes how observational learning influences subjects’ conforming/non-conforming and pro-social/self-interested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147057
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Variety aversion and information overload : an experimental approach
Kaiser, Karen - 2011
of unknown goods will find it optimal at some point to become variety averse. To test this hypothesis, an experiment is … rationality ; decision making ; laboratory experiment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008991845
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How do consumers choose health insurance? : an experiment on heterogeneity in attribute tastes and risk preferences
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Kokot, Johanna; Vomhof, Markus; … - 2014
Recent health policy reforms try to increase consumer choice. We use a laboratory experiment to analyze consumers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461931
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High Stakes Behavior with Low Payoffs : Inducing Preferences with Holt-Laury Gambles
Dickhaut, John W. - 2009
A continuing goal of experiments is to understand risky decisions when the decisions are important. Often a decision's importance relates to the magnitude of the associated monetary stake. Khaneman and Tversky (1979) argue that risky decisions in high stakes environments can be informed using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159348
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Behavioral Patterns and Reduction of Sub-Optimality : An Experimental Choice Analysis
Di Cagno, Daniela - 2017
This paper attempts to identify behavioral patterns and compare their average success considering several criteria of bounded rationality. Experimentally observed choice behavior in various decision tasks is used to assess heterogeneity in how individual participants respond to 15 randomly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945510
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Why Do People Prefer Randomisation? An Experimental Investigation
Permana, Yudistira Hendra - 2019
implications: what is 'played out' at the end of the experiment is not influenced by subjects choosing this middle column. In other … experiment, which adopts this latter incentive mechanism, and ask the question as to why people might choose this option, that is … the choice (to the coin), shifting the ‘responsibility' to the coin, though the DM may tremble in expressing his or her …
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