treatment. After the real effort task subjects were asked to state their retrospective beliefs about their performance in public …

We investigate the effect of beliefs and preferences on trust and trustworthiness in the first experiment involving a …

Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions … shift beliefs, we find that beliefs can be shifted, which in turn shifts decisions. In our setting, the beliefs of low … and women react similarly to the treatment. However, men hold higher baseline beliefs, implying that women make better …