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Robust Scoring Rules
Tsakas, Elias - 2019
Does the mere exposure of a subject to a belief elicitation task affect the very same beliefs that we are trying to elicit? Is it theoretically possible to guarantee that this will not be the case? In this paper, we introduce mechanisms that make it simultaneously strictly dominant for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901519
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Knowing Me, Knowing You : An Experiment on Mutual Payoff Information and Strategic Uncertainty
Alshaikhmubarak, Hazem; Hales, David; Kogelnik, Maria; … - 2021
We use a laboratory experiment to study how mutual payoff information affects play in strategic settings. Subjects play the Prisoner's Dilemma or Stag Hunt game against randomly re-matched opponents under two information treatments. In our partial-information treatment subjects are shown only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213631
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Willingness to take risk: The role of risk conception and optimism
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2019
strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality, and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … general risk question across domains. Our results also rationalize why risk taking is related to optimism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994095
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On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2022
In this paper, we provide an explanation for why risk taking is related to optimism. Using a laboratory experiment, we … show that the degree of optimism predicts whether people tend to focus on the positive or negative outcomes of risky … behavior. This suggests that dispositional optimism may affect risk taking mainly by shifting attention to specific outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296507
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On the psychology of the relation between optimism and risk taking
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2023
In this paper, we provide an explanation for why risk taking is related to optimism. Using a laboratory experiment, we … show that the degree of optimism predicts whether people tend to focus on the positive or negative outcomes of risky … behavior. This suggests that dispositional optimism may affect risk taking mainly by shifting attention to specific outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374510
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When "hope springs eternal": The role of chance in risk taking
Karelaia, Natalia; Hogarth, Robin - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
toward chance by those whose self-assessed skills are low and high. Making chance more important induces greater optimism for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029662
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Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2018
strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … why risk taking is related to optimism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931607
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Willingness to take risk : the role of risk conception and optimism
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2019 - This version: March 11, 2019
strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality, and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … general risk question across domains. Our results also rationalize why risk taking is related to optimism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986900
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Willingness to take risk : the role of risk conception and optimism
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2018
strongly associated with optimism, a stable facet of personality and that it predicts real-life risk taking. The general risk … why risk taking is related to optimism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880595
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On the psychology of the relation between optimism and risk taking
Dohmen, Thomas; Quercia, Simone; Willrodt, Jana - 2023
In this paper, we provide an explanation for why risk taking is related to optimism. Using a laboratory experiment, we … show that the degree of optimism predicts whether people tend to focus on the positive or negative outcomes of risky … behavior. This suggests that dispositional optimism may affect risk taking mainly by shifting attention to specific outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233649