Search Results - subject:"cognitive ability"

Choice under uncertainty and cognitive load

Dominiak, Adam; Duersch, Peter - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 68 (2024) 2, pp. 133-161

Abstract Does exposure to cognitive load affect key properties of economic behavior? In this experiment, subjects face a series of simple binary decision tasks between prospects, testing for monotonicity in monetary payments, consistency with (first-order) stochastic dominance, reduction of...

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Cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability, and employee mobility

Khashabi, Pooyan; Kretschmer, Tobias; Mohammadi, Ali; … - 2024

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Evaluating the Sunk Cost Effect

Ronayne, David; Sgroi, Daniel; Tuckwell, Anthony - 2021

We provide experimental evidence of behavior consistent with the sunk cost effect. Subjects who earned a lottery via a real-effort task were given an opportunity to switch to a dominant lottery; 23% chose to stick with their dominated lottery. The endowment effect accounts for roughly only one...

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Evaluating the sunk cost effect

Ronayne, David; Sgroi, Daniel; Tuckwell, Anthony - 2021

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Multidimensional cognitive ability, intermediate channels, and financial outcomes

Simion, Ștefania; Sulka, Tomasz - 2023

In this paper, we examine which dimensions of cognitive ability are most predictive of key financial outcomes and what … plausible "channels" through which differences in cognitive ability might influence financial outcomes. Subsequently, we put the … pathways from cognitive ability to financial outcomes. …

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Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability

Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our …

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Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability

Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our …

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Cognitive Ability and Perceived Disagreement in Learning

Evdokimov, Piotr; Garfagnini, Umberto - 2023

. We document a persistent gap in the perception of disagreement as a function of cognitive ability. Higher cognitive … disagreement regardless of cognitive ability. Learning about the state of the world has little effect on the evolution of perceived … disagreement when controlling for cognitive ability. Providing subjects with information about their partner's cognitive ability …

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Can we playfully measure cognitive ability? Construct‐related validity and applicant reactions

Ohlms, Marie L.; Melchers, Klaus G.; Kanning, Uwe P. - In: International Journal of Selection and Assessment 32 (2023) 1, pp. 91-107

We developed a game-based assessment (GBA) measuring cognitive ability for use in personnel selection and examined its …

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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection

Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023

We present the first comprehensive evidence on the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in the selection of … from local government elections in Finland with tests of cognitive and non-cognitive ability of men administered by the … dimensions of non-cognitive ability. Second, elected politicians possess more desirable traits than nonelected candidates. Our …

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