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Do you know that I am biased? : an experiment

Ludwig, Sandra (contributor); Nafziger, Julia (contributor) - 2007

This experiment explores whether individuals know that other people are biased. We confirm that overestimation of …

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You better play 7: mutual versus common knowledge of advice in a weak-link experiment

Devetag, Giovanna; Hosni, Hykel; Sillari, Giacomo - 2012

This paper presents the results of an experiment on mutual versus common knowl- edge of advice in a two-player weak …

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Adriani, Fabrizio; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2014

We study Nature's trade-off when endowing people with the cognitive ability to distinguish between different time periods or different prizes. Our key premise is that cognitive ability is a scarce resource, to be deployed only where and when it really matters. We show that this simple insight...

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Loss aversion and consumption choice : theory and experimental evidence ; conference paper

Karle, Heiko; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Peitz, Martin - 2013 - Version: May 9, 2013

points. The implications of this model are tested in an experiment in which participants have to make a consumption choice …

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Expected Utility Preferences versus Prospect Theory Preferences in Bargaining

Khan, Abhimanyu - 2018

-run by expected utility maximisers with the share they would receive if their preferences were described by prospect theory … condition for individuals to obtain a higher share of the pie if their preferences obey prospect theory rather than expected … utility. I decompose the effect that the three features that characterise prospect theory preferences - reference point …

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The More You Know : Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment

Gee, Laura - 2016

This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees …

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Neighbors, Knowledge, and Nuggets : Two Natural Field Experiments on the Role of Incentives on Energy Conservation

Dolan, Paul - 2015

There is increasing research on the impact of social norms on economic behavior. The research to date has a number of limitations: 1) it has not de-coupled the impact of the norm and the knowledge required to understand how to change behavior based upon it; and 2) it has not understood the...

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Preference Discovery

Delaney, Jason; Jacobson, Sarah A; Moenig, Thorsten - 2021

Is the assumption that people automatically know their own preferences innocuous? We present an experiment studying the … experiment in which finite-lived participants have an induced utility function over fictitious goods about whose marginal …

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Contextual Deliberation and the Choice-Valuation Preference Reversals

Guo, Liang - 2021

is whether the procedure-invariance principle is violated. This research presents a parsimonious theory to reconcile …/acquisition (i.e., deliberation). As predicted, when lottery pairing was known, experiment participants exhibited substantially less …

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Habitual communication

Ioannidis, Konstantinos - 2022

Many everyday activities are habitual. Among the most common human activities is communication. If people primarily communicate in a common-interests environment, they may form habits of truth-telling and believing messages. If they primarily communicate in a conflicting-interests environment,...

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