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Paradoxes and mechanisms for choice under risk by James C. Cox, Vjollca Sadiraj, and Ulrich Schmidt

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Over-confidence and low-cost heuristics : an experimental investigation of choice behavior

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order to disentangle different choice dynamics, they devise a laboratory experiment with a novel experimental task in which …

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Overconfidence in investment decisions : an experimental approach

Dittrich, Dennis; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001

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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving

Garcia, Thomas - 2020

A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that …

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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving

Garcia, Thomas - 2018

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Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving

Garcia, Thomas - 2019

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