A pervasive concern with the use of subjective data in choice models is that the data are biased and endogenous. This paper examines the extent to which cognitive biases plague subjective data, specifically addressing 1) whether cognitive dissonance affects the reporting of beliefs, and 2)...

About the problem of teacher’s evaluation it is important to ask first what significance and effect has this phenomenon for the implicated persons. Discussing about the effect in the evaluation would allow not only to know what people do but why do they act (or do not act) as they act and what...

Behavioral Finance researches the influence of psychology on those carrying outfinancial transactions as well as on the market behavior afterwards. Behavioral Finance is aninteresting topic in that it helps explain why financial markets are less effective and how they areless effective. In this...

Because students rely on their subjective expectations when choosing a college major, understanding this process of expectations formation is crucial for education policy recommendations. This paper focuses on how college students form expectations about various major-specific outcomes. I...

The substantively rational value of the games studied in this paper does not help predict subject performance in the experiment at all. An accurate model must account for the cognitive ability of the people playing the game. This paper investigates whether the variation in measured rationality...

Monetary incentives are often considered as a way to foster contributions to public goods in society and firms. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of monetary incentives in the presence of a norm enforcement mechanism. Norm enforcement through peer punishment has been shown to be...

<i>Seven Rules for Social Research</i> teaches social scientists how to get the most out of their technical skills and tools, providing a resource that fully describes the strategies and concepts no researcher or student of human behavior can do without. Glenn Firebaugh provides indispensable practical...

Every day on eBay, millions of people buy and sell a vast array of goods, from rare collectibles and antiques to used cars and celebrity memorabilia. The internet auction site is remarkably easy to use, which accounts in part for its huge popularity. But how does eBay really work, and how does...

To many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" is as fitting now as it was 150 years ago. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. Building on the popularity of books such as...</i>

Ce document résume les différents chapitres d’une thèse de doctorat sur le comportement de réponse des consommateurs soumis à un questionnement dans le cadre de recherches ou d’études marketing. Le biais du répondant se définit comme l’erreur de mesure résultant de l’adoption...