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The impact of insufficient sleep on the serial reproduction of information
Dickinson, David L.; Drummond, Sean P. A. - 2024
Story telling is part of life, and the retelling of stories is an important form of communication, cultural practice …
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The impact of insufficient sleep on the serial reproduction of information
Dickinson, David L.; Drummond, Sean P. A. - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014575328
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need to complete. This study provides a rigorous...
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024
Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’....
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Power and the privilege of clarity : an analysis of bargaining power and information transmission
Groot Ruiz, Adrian de; Offerman, Theo; Onderstal, Sander - 2012
We provide a game theoretic analysis of how power shapes the clarity of communication. We analyze information … by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …
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Testing the advantages of conscious vs. unconscious thought for complex decisions in a distraction free paradigm
McElroy, Todd; Dickinson, David L. - 2016
In this study we test predictions from Unconscious Thought Theory (UTT) that unconscious thought will lead to better decision making in complex decision tasks relative to conscious thought. Different from prior work testing this prediction, we use a method of manipulating conscious and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580853
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The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect
Dickinson, David L.; McEvoy, David M.; Bruner, David - 2021
Insufficient sleep is commonplace, and understanding how this affects interpersonal conflict holds implications for personal and workplace settings. We experimentally manipulated participant sleep state for a full week prior to administering a stylized bargaining task that models payoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658115
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The impact of sleep restriction on interpersonal conflict resolution and the narcotic effect
Dickinson, David L.; McEvoy, David M.; Bruner, David - 2021
Insufficient sleep is commonplace, and understanding how this affects interpersonal conflict holds implications for personal and workplace settings. We experimentally manipulated participant sleep state for a full week prior to administering a stylized bargaining task that models payoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588787
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A class of strategy-correlated equilibria in sender–receiver games
Blume, Andreas - In: Games and Economic Behavior 75 (2012) 2, pp. 510-517
This paper shows that the efficiency bound for communication equilibria identified by Goltsman et al. (2009) in the …
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Communication and Binary Decisions: Is it Better to Communicate?
Verge, Thibaud; Malavolti-Grimal, Estelle; Loss, Frédéric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
communication games do not yield equilibria which (ex ante) outperform delegation. Referring to multiple experts allow the decision …-maker to obtain more information. However, this information can never be perfect, and sophisticated communication games, for … instance with multilateral, multistage communication, do not outperform simple communication methods. …
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