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Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023

when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need … for motivated reasoning allows workers to hold substantially more optimistic beliefs and identify a causal link between … the exogenous variation in beliefs and the deferral of work to the future. This systematic belief-based delay of work …

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Motivated procrastination

Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024

anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test … beliefs among workers, which causally increase the deferral of work to the future. The roots for biased beliefs stem from …

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Clumped or piecewise? : evidence on preferences for information

Zimmermann, Florian - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 61 (2015) 4, pp. 740-753

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Self-assessment : the role of the social environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...

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Determinants of trust : the role of personal experiences

Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2019

Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals' inclination to trust others?...

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Self-assessment : the role of the social environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

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Self-assessment : the role of the social environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

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The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition : experimental evidence

Danz, David - 2014 - Rev.

The psychology literature provides ample evidence that people have difficulties taking the perspective of less-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader...

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The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition : experimental evidence ; conference paper

Danz, David - 2014

The psychology literature provides ample evidence that people have difficulties taking the perspective of less informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader...

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A model of reference-dependent belief updating

Maier, Johannes K.; König, Clemens - 2016

We propose a model of instrumental belief choice under loss aversion. When new information arrives, an agent is prompted to abandon her prior. However, potential posteriors may induce her to take actions that generate a lower utility in some states than actions induced by her prior. These losses...

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