This paper presents the results of an experiment that demonstrates that personality may have a significant impact on economic decision making under uncertainty. This impact is indirect since differences in personality characteristics lead decision makers to seek different types of information...

This paper investigates belief learning. Unlike other investigators who have been forced to use observable proxies to approximate unobserved beliefs, we have, using a belief elicitation procedure (proper scoring rule), elicited subject beliefs directly. As a result we were able to perform a more...