Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …

We examine how a social stigma of seeking information can inhibit learning. Consider a Seeker of uncertain ability who … experiment with treatments designed to detect both effects. Seekers have three days to retrieve information from paired Advisors …

comparable to themselves to be the most persuasive. Incorporating communication dynamics can take the influential social learning … networks are recognized as the most credible source of information about new technologies. We incorporate social learning in … extension policy using a large-scale field experiment in which we communicate to farmers using different members of social …

investigate this claim using a simple model of Bayesian learning. Two individuals with different priors observe the same infinite … behavior in a range of circumstances. We illustrate how the type of learning outlined in this paper interacts with economic …

behavior: Players who produce fewer correct answers for their team are more likely to cooperate in the social dilemma game …

We compare how well agents aggregate information in two repeated social learning environments. In the first setting …

grows large. Under truthful communication, we show that asymptotic learning occurs if (and under some additional conditions … equilibrium when the communication network induces asymptotic learning. Moreover, we contrast equilibrium behavior with a socially … communication networks that lead to asymptotic learning. Our result shows that societies with too many and sufficiently large social …