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Thaler, Michael - 2023

This paper experimentally studies how motivated reasoning affects information transmission. Senders are randomly matched with receivers whose ideology is either aligned or misaligned with the truth, and either face incentives to be rated as truthful by receivers or face no incentives. These...

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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...

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Good news is not a sufficient condition for motivated reasoning

Thaler, Michael - 2024

reasoning to overly trust good news versus bad news on valence-relevant issues like cancer survival rates, others' happiness …

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Why do we discriminate? : the role of motivated reasoning

Eyting, Markus - 2022

"Identifying the cause of discrimination is crucial to design effective policies and to understand discrimination dynamics. Building on traditional models, this paper introduces a new explanation for discrimination: discrimination based on motivated reasoning. By systematically acquiring and...

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Good or bad news first? : the effect of feedback order on motivation and performance

Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

whether the ordering of feedback elements matters for motivation and performance. In random order, university students get one … a drop in motivation after negative feedback when receiving it first, but not when receiving it second. Furthermore …

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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’....

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Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution : An Experimental Investigation

Berger, Johannes - 2010

A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline treatment in which supervisors were not restricted in their rating behavior to a forced distribution...

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ASPECTS MOTIVATIONNELS DANS L'APPRENTISSAGE DES LANGUES ÉTRANGÈRES - LE CAS DU FRANÇAIS DANS UNE FACULTÉ DE SCIENCES ÉCONOMIQUES

Felicia, Constantin - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2008) 1, pp. 596-601

multifaceted pedagogical relations. In this game of components and relations, motivation is the stimulating and directive factor …

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Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Organisational Contexts: A Motivation-Based Perspective

Lam, Alice; Lambermont-Ford, Jean-Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper develops a motivation-based perspective to explore how organisations resolve the social dilemma of knowledge … altruistic stance fostered by social norms and group identity. The analysis builds on a three-category taxonomy of motivation …: adding ‘hedonic’ motivation to the traditional dichotomy of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Based on an analysis of …

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Biaised Information and Effort

Rosaz, Julie - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2010

) principals do bias information, ii) agents trust the cheap-talk messages they receive and adjust their effort accordingly …

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