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Eliciting risk preferences using choice lists

Freeman, David; Halevy, Yoram; Kneeland, Terri - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 1, pp. 217-237

. Using an experiment with online workers, we find that subjects choose the risky lottery rather than a sure payment …

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Am I my peer‘s keeper? : social responsibility in financial decision making

Füllbrunn, Sascha; Luhan, Wolfgang J. - 2015

oder für andere Personen. Wir verwenden ein „within-subjects“ für unser Experiment, bei dem Vermögensverwalter in …

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Overconfidence in investment decisions : an experimental approach

Dittrich, Dennis; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001

We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute … asset, the other with two risky assets. Overconfidence increases (i) with the absolute deviation from optimal choices, (ii …

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The curse of knowledge increases self-selection into competition : experimental evidence

Danz, David - 2014 - Rev.

-informed others. This paper presents a controlled experiment showing that this "curse of knowledge" can cause comparative … overconfidence and overentry into competition. In a broader context, the results provide an explanation for the overconfidence of …

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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...

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Gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in high-stakes competitions : evidence from freediving contests

Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020

This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … average, are less likely than men to overestimate their ability. This result is robust to different measures of overconfidence … overconfidence. In terms of performance, results suggest that women suffer more from overconfidence than men. …

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Gender differences in overconfidence and decision making in high-stakes competitions : evidence from freediving contests

Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020

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The role of choice in social dilemma experiments

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P.; Apesteguia, Jose - 2003

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Cooperation and Decision Time

Evans, Anthony; Rand, David G. - 2018

We review two fundamentally different ways that decision time is related to cooperation. First, studies have experimentally manipulated decision time to understand how cooperation is related to the use of intuition versus deliberation. Current evidence supports the claim that time pressure (and,...

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Social Setting, Intuition, and Experience in Laboratory Experiments Interact to Shape Cooperative Decision-Making

Capraro, Valerio - 2015

experiment exploring how these findings transfer to a non-cooperative setting. We find two major results: (i) promoting intuition …

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