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Correlation neglect in belief formation : conference paper
Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2013
people neglect correlations in the updating process, leading to systematically "overshooting" beliefs. This finding lends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339934
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Who Cares about social image?
Friedrichsen, Jana; Engelmann, Dirk - 2017
This paper experimentally investigates how concerns for social approval relate to intrinsic motivations to purchase ethically. Participants state their willingness-to-pay for both a fair trade and a conventional chocolate bar in private or publicly. A standard model of social image predicts that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587460
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2023
when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need … for motivated reasoning allows workers to hold substantially more optimistic beliefs and identify a causal link between … the exogenous variation in beliefs and the deferral of work to the future. This systematic belief-based delay of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487122
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Motivated procrastination
Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon - 2024
anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test … beliefs among workers, which causally increase the deferral of work to the future. The roots for biased beliefs stem from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517966
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A model of reference-dependent belief updating
Maier, Johannes K.; König, Clemens - 2016
We propose a model of instrumental belief choice under loss aversion. When new information arrives, an agent is prompted to abandon her prior. However, potential posteriors may induce her to take actions that generate a lower utility in some states than actions induced by her prior. These losses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557745
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298544
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300140
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Conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gächter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308480
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Can contracts signal social norms? : experimental evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - 2013
mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765609
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Who cares for social image? : interactions between intrinsic motivation and social image concerns
Friedrichsen, Jana; Engelmann, Dirk - 2013
We consider the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval in a laboratory experiment. We elicit a proxy for Fairtrade preferences before the experiment in which we elicit willingness to pay for conventional and Fairtrade chocolate. Treatments vary whether this can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223073