Search Results - subject:"Belief-based utility"

Gandhi, Ashvin; Giuliano, Paola; Guan, Eric; Keefer, Quinn - 2024

Economic research on entertainment is scant despite its large share of time use. We test economic theories of belief-based … utility in the context of video-game engagement. Using data on 2.8 million matches from League of Legends, we find evidence …

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Good News Is Not a Sufficient Condition for Motivated Reasoning

Thaler, Michael - 2024

results suggest that belief-based utility is not sufficient in leading people to distort belief updating in order to favor …

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Beliefs that entertain

Gandhi, Ashvin; Giuliano, Paola; Guan, Eric; Keefer, … - 2024

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Good news is not a sufficient condition for motivated reasoning

Thaler, Michael - 2024

results suggest that belief-based utility is not sufficient in leading people to distort belief updating in order to favor …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464329

The marketplace of rationalizations

Williams, Daniel - In: Economics and philosophy 39 (2023) 1, pp. 99-123

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Motivated mislearning : the case of correlation neglect

Bolte, Lukas; Fan, Tony Q. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization 217 (2024), pp. 647-663

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Beliefs that entertain

Gandhi, Ashvin; Giuliano, Paola; Guan, Eric; Keefer, … - 2024

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Wishful thinking in macroeconomic expectations

Li, King King; Huang, Bo - 2021

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"It's not about the money : it's about sending a message!" : avengers want offenders to understand the reason for revenge

Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, George - In: Organizational behavior and human decision processes : … 174 (2023), pp. 1-15

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"It's Not about the Money. It's about Sending a Message!" Unpacking the Components of Revenge

Molnar, Andras; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, George - 2020

We examine whether belief-based preferences - caring about what transgressors believe - play a crucial role in punishment decisions: Do punishers want to make sure that transgressors understand why they are being punished, and is this desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive...

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