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Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences : An Experimental Study

Dickinson, David L. - 2018

antisocial behavior. Choices in both environments respond to incentives (i.e., the relative price of the ethical decision …

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Behavioral Economic Phenomena in Decision-Making for Others

Ifcher, John - 2018

We examine whether biases identified in the behavioral-economics literature apply in decision-making for others (DMfO …). We conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects make decision on behalf of themselves and others in eighteen tasks …

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Economic Consequences of Mispredicting Utility

Frey, Bruno S. - 2013

In a simple conceptual framework, we organize a multitude of phenomena related to the (mis)prediction of utility. Consequences in terms of distorted choices and lower wellbeing emerge if people have to trade-off between alternatives that are characterized by attributes satisfying extrinsic...

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Conventionalism, coordination, and mental models : from Poincaré to Simon

Koumakhov, Rouslan - In: The journal of economic methodology 21 (2014) 3, pp. 251-272

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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior : Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Sutter, Matthias - 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior : A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions

Heblich, Stephan - 2014

Does it matter if you speak with a regional accent? Speaking immediately reveals something of one's own social and cultural identity, be it consciously or unconsciously. Perceiving accents involves not only reconstructing such imprints but also augmenting them with particular attitudes and...

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Confucianism and Preferences : Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine - 2013

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …

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Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases

Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas; Schmitz, Patrick W. - 2021

We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005)...

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The Influence of Dietary Patterns on Outcomes in a Bayesian Choice Task

Dickinson, David L.; Garbuio, Caleb - 2021

incentivized decision task involves Bayesian assessments where participants may use existing (base rate) as well as new information … diet improved decision making relative to those who reported following No Diet. Our data fail to support these hypotheses …. In fact, we found some evidence that adherence to a No Sugar Diet predicted a reduced decision accuracy and was connected …

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Hayek's theory on complexity and knowledge : dichotomies, levels of analysis, and bounded rationality

Fiori, Stefano - In: The journal of economic methodology 16 (2009) 3, pp. 265-285

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