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Does the wish to convince others lead people to persuade themselves about the moral and factual superiority of their position? We investigate this question in the context of two international debating competitions, where persuasion goals (pro or contra a motion) are randomly assigned to debaters...
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We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season … of points. We discuss possible explanations for these decision errors. -- Basketball ; NBA ; risk taking ; tournaments …
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such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a … social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative … ability ; experiment …
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; Gender ; Competition ; Aggression ; Dominance ; Risk-taking ; Endocrinological economics …
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particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take heterogeneity induced changes of continuation values …-professional basketball tournaments, we find that effort is negatively affected by the ability of the current opponent, consistent with the …
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