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crime, senders think that behaving antisocially is more acceptable and experience less guilt. Importantly, we identify a … crucial condition for the increased antisocial behavior by groups: the partner in crime must actively participate in the …
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crime, senders think that behaving antisocially is more acceptable and experience less guilt. Importantly, we identify a … crucial condition for the increased antisocial behavior by groups: the partner in crime must actively participate in the …
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the variation in confidence and competition entry decisions. Conservatism is correlated across tasks and predicts …. Asymmetry is less stable across tasks, but predicts competition entry by increasing self-confidence. …
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We investigate if, and why, an initial success can trigger a string of successes. Using random variations in success in a real‐effort laboratory experiment, we cleanly identify the causal effect of an early success in a competition. We confirm that an early success indeed leads to increased...
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. It examines whether financial behavior, confidence, time preferences, risk preferences and financial literacy perceptions …. A t-test analysis showed that FB, risk preferences, confidence levels, time preferences and financial literacy …, financial literacy perception index and confidence significantly influenced the FB of categorized university students. The risk …
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It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs or "wishful thinking". However, there is little direct causal evidence for this effect. In our experiment, participants perform a visual pattern recog- nition task where some...
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confidence and ambiguity attitudes in individual decision making. Different ambiguity settings not only can be determined by the … decision maker’s ignorance about her own characteristics or performance and, thus, deals with confidence. We design a …
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confidence in the ability to learn raises incentives, while confidence in the level of human capital lowers incentives for …
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For a rational choice theorist, the absence of crime is more difficult to explain than its presence. Arguably, the … explain how imperfect criminal sanctions deter crime. The critical component of the theory is aversion against outperforming … the recipient is a charity. Prisoners give more, not less. -- Inequity aversion ; crime ; dictator game ; selfishness …
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Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison …
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