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for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’. In a longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals must complete a …
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experiment of self-serving deceptive behavior which combines two exogenously varied levels of reflection time with a cognition … dimension for dishonest decision-making and for the cognition process of the chance to deceive. We conduct a laboratory … time. More importantly, decomposing misreporting into its two components, i.e., the cognition process of the misreporting …
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behavioral implications of deadlines. We test these predictions in a field experiment at a dental clinic, in which we exogenously … frequency than without a deadline. Evidence from a follow-up experiment and complementary surveys supports the notion that …
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We study response behavior in surveys and propose a method to identify and improve the informativeness of survey evidence. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that responses imperfectly reveal respondents' characteristics due to limited...
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representative survey experiment where we exogenously manipulate the presence of a need for justification of anti-social behavior … suggest an important role of motivated cognition. …
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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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By means of a laboratory experiment, we show that, contrary to standard consumer theory, financially equivalent balance …
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Expert advice is often biased in ways that benefit the advisor. We demonstrate how selfdeception helps advisors be biased while preserving their self-image as ethical and identify limits to advisors' ability to self-deceive. In experiments where advisors recommend one of two investments to a...
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simple theoretical framework and an experiment to show that enhanced cognitive abilities may lead to better policy choices …
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We test experimentally an explanation of over and under confidence as motivated by (perhaps unconscious) strategic concerns, and find compelling evidence supporting this hypothesis in the behavior of participants who send and respond to others ́statements of confidence about how well they have...
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