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Economic polarization and antisocial behavior : an experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Nas Özen, Efşan - 2019
, while they are in line with recent models that focus on anger as the result of the frustration of expectations. …Economic inequality may fuel frustration, possibly leading to anger and antisocial behavior. We experimentally study a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058343
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Economic polarization and antisocial behavior : an experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Nas Özen, Efşan - 2019
, while they are in line with recent models that focus on anger as the result of the frustration of expectations. …Economic inequality may fuel frustration, possibly leading to anger and antisocial behavior. We experimentally study a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064378
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Economic polarization and antisocial behavior : an experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Bortolotti, Stefania; Nas Özen, Efşan - In: Games and economic behavior 126 (2021), pp. 387-401
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616730
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need to complete. This study provides a rigorous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487122
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024
Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517966
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The behavioral impact of emotions in a power-to-take game : an experimental study
Bosman, Ronald; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
) Expectations have a significant effect on the probability of punishment but not on the intensity of experienced emotion. This last … hedonic impact. (2) Irritation and contempt drive punishment behavior. (3) There are discontinuous jumps in the behavior of … responders. They either choose no punishment (destroy nothing) or the highest level of punishment (destroy everything). (4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781606
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Which Beliefs? Behavior-Predictive Beliefs are Inconsistent with Information-Based Beliefs : Evidence from Covid-19
Heffetz, Ori; Ishai, Guy - 2021
We investigate the relationship between (a) official information on COVID-19 infection and death case counts; (b) beliefs about such case counts, at present and in the future; (c) beliefs about average infection chance—in principle, directly calculable from (b); and (d) self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220691
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Thompson Sampling : A Behavioral Model of Expectation Formation for Economics
Mauersberger, Felix - 2022
Despite much criticism, economic analyses often use Bayesian belief formation. Yet, widely applicable, empirically founded, non-Bayesian approaches are scarce. I investigate whether Thompson Sampling is a suitable unifying model of belief formation by testing its predictions in a pre-registered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013405709
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Norms and guilt
Danilov, Anastasia; Khalmetski, Kiryl; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018
It has been argued that guilt aversion (the aversion to violate others' expectations) and the compliance to descriptive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825251
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Motivated belief updating and rationalization of information
Drobner, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2022
We study belief updating about relative performance in an ego-relevant task. Manipulating the perceived ego-relevance of the task, we show that subjects update their beliefs optimistically because they derive direct utility flows from holding positive beliefs. This finding provides a behavioral...
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