when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need … longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals have to complete a cumbersome task of unknown length. They are exposed to … for motivated reasoning allows workers to hold substantially more optimistic beliefs and identify a causal link between …

anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test … for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’. In a longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals must complete a … beliefs among workers, which causally increase the deferral of work to the future. The roots for biased beliefs stem from …

We randomly assigned consumer loan requests (of random amount and length) to gender-balanced prospective-borrowers who … submitted by women are 18.3% less likely to be approved, with most of the gender effect coming from gender-biased officers … repayment rates than men and find that gender-biased officers in the treatment-group discriminated more against women relative …

implications for the nature and formation of preferences. We study the tariff experiment conducted by South Central Bell where …

a field experiment on resource conservation in an energy-and water-intensive everyday activity (showering). One …

.g. gender, race, sugar) have a stronger effect when the attribute is mixed with others, and so the decision becomes less … discrimination, self-control, and framing effects …

.g. gender, race, sugar) have a stronger effect when the attribute is mixed with others, and so the decision becomes less … discrimination, self-control, and framing effects …

: excessively optimistic beliefs about future demands on an individual's time. The models can be distinguished by how individuals …