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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities …
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about how such beliefs about one's own abilities causally influence choices is, however, sparse. In this paper, we use a …
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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions … shift beliefs, we find that beliefs can be shifted, which in turn shifts decisions. In our setting, the beliefs of low … and women react similarly to the treatment. However, men hold higher baseline beliefs, implying that women make better …
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Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities …
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evidence that people overweight 'good news' relative to 'bad news' when updating ego-relevant beliefs. In this paper, we …
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, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news' relative to 'bad news' when updating ego-relevant beliefs. In this paper …
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, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news' relative to 'bad news' when updating ego-relevant beliefs. In this paper …
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, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news' relative to 'bad news' when updating ego-relevant beliefs. In this paper …
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This paper studies individual truth-telling behavior in the presence of multiple lying opportunities with heterogeneous stake sizes. The results show that individuals lie downwards (i.e. forgo money due to their lie) in low-stakes situations in order to signal honesty, and thereby mitigate the...
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There are many important decision problems where learning through experimentation is costly or impossible. In these situations, individuals may try to learn from observing the outcomes of others who have made similar decisions. Often, however, information about others comprises a selected...
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