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-takes-all competition based on similar skills. We show that individual differences in feedback responsiveness explain an important part of … the variation in confidence and competition entry decisions. Conservatism is correlated across tasks and predicts … competition entry both by influencing beliefs and independently of beliefs, suggesting it can be considered a personal trait …
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Competition involves two dimensions, rivalry for resources and social-status ranking. In our experiment we exclude the …
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of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
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-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants' preferencesfor resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment.Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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online experiment to document aggregate levels and individual differences in the willingness to engage in dirty competition … validate a set of survey questions that capture willingness to engage in dirty competition above general willingness to compete …. We elicit these questions in a representative survey panel and show that willingness to engage in dirty competition is a …
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lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece …-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At the end of each round, those who compete get feedback on the competition … effect is also present for high performers. In an additional experiment, I show that giving feedback to non-competers might …
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correlated with choosing to enter the voluntary competition for women. In Experiment 2 we exogenously induce stress using the … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … through self-assessment) to taking part in a mandatory competition predict individual willingness to participate in a …
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We study the impact of advice or observation on the depth of reasoning in an experimental beauty-contest game. Both sources of information trigger faster convergence to the equilibrium. Yet, we find that subjects who receive naïve advice outperform uninformed subjects permanently, whereas...
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laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme …
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