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Large effects of small cues : priming selfish economic decisions

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024 - Revised: April 21, 2024

tradeoff between profit maximization (market norm) and workers' welfare (social norm). We use priming to manipulate the cues …

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Religious identity, trust, reciprocity, and prosociality : theory and evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022

actions, for Hindu and Muslim subjects. Priming has little effect on Hindu subjects but it enhances religious polarization in … underlying assumptions on beliefs, and their dependence on priming and identity are confirmed by the data, identifying a precise …

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Risky intertemporal choices have a common value function, but a separate choice function

Fidanoski, Filip; Dixit, Vinayak; Ortmann, Andreas - 2025

account for both risky and intertemporal choices, and under the conditions of their experiment, found evidence supporting it … reason to be sceptical is that the experiment was not properly powered up; the no-difference results reported by the authors …

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Axiom preferences and choice mistakes under risk

Herweg, Fabian; Hippel, Svenja; Müller, Daniel; … - 2024

almost half of our subjects. Among those, roughly 24% are rational expected utility maximizers, 24% make occasional mistakes …

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Eliciting utility curvature in time preference

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2019

This paper examines the effects of alternative assumptions regarding the curvature of utility upon estimated discount … the Holt and Laury method for risk. The results demonstrate that utility elicited directly from choice over time is … significantly concave, but far closer to linear than utility elicited under risk. As a result, the effect of adjusting discount …

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Axiom preferences and choice mistakes under risk

Herweg, Fabian; Hippel, Svenja; Müller, Daniel; … - 2024

almost half of our subjects. Among those, roughly 24%are rational expected utility maximizers, 24% make occasional mistakes …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556632

Estimating preference parameters from strictly concave budget restrictions

Gerhardt, Holger; Suchy, Rafael - 2024

utility. …

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General revealed preference tests of weak separability and utility maximization with incomplete adjustment

Hjertstrand, Per; Swofford, James L.; Whitney, Gerald A. - 2020

Boards hire and fire CEOs based on imperfect information. Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, we analyze the role of a potentially important unobserved attribute - CEO health - in corporate governance. We find CEOs are significantly healthier than the population and other highskill...

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Epictetusian rationality

Ponthière, Grégory - 2022

According to Epictetus, mental freedom and happiness can be achieved by distinguishing between, on the one hand, things that are upon our con- trol (our acts, opinions and desires), and, on the other hand, things that are not upon our control (our body, property, offi ces and reputation), and by...

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Subliminal influence on generosity

Andersson, Ola; Miettinen, Topi; Hytönen, Kaisa; … - 2015

We experimentally prime subjects subliminally prior to charity donation decisions by showing words that have connotations to prosocial values for a very short duration of time (17ms). Our main finding is that, compared to a baseline condition, the prosocial prime increases donations with about...

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