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For two periods an expert E announces his forecast of the state to a decision-maker D who chooses action. They disagree about the precision of the probability assessments. At the end of period 1 the state is observed. In the last period E makes announcements more extreme than his forecasts....
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everybody else or another "unspeci fied" individual is doing, they exhibit a consensus bias (believing that others are similar … shows that not accounting for the biases will typically bias estimates of game-theoretic thinking upwards. …
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actions in the corresponding game. We find no evidence of a hindsight bias or wishful thinking in any of the treatments. …
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Patience—low delay discounting—has been shown to predict cooperative behavior in environments where cooperation demands the suppression of competitive aspirations. But what about intergroup-conflict situations, where within-group cooperation is importantly motivated by competitive sentiments...
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provide a systematic analysis of present bias in individual and social contexts, as well as its stability across these two. In … a longitudinal experiment, subjects make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real-effort tasks for varying … prices using a convex budget set approach. We find a substantial present bias in generosity. In generalized dictator games …
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We study the impact of the media negativity bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess … negativity bias in the selection and tonality of news as the norm rather than the exception. Overall,our results suggest that …
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We study the impact of media bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure … significant reaction in respect to the neutral condition, suggesting that participants perceive the media negativity bias in the …
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a longitudinal experiment participants make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real-effort tasks between … of present bias across contexts. Discounting in social situations thus seems to be conceptually different from …
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in strategic settings. This article studies the role of anchoring bias in private-value auctions. We test experimentally …
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interpersonal trade-offs. In a longitudinal experiment subjects make a series of intertemporal allocation decisions of real …, structural estimations reveal that this is because agents exhibit present bias in own but not in others' consumption. We show … that very similar differences in present bias are observed in the absence of any interpersonal trade-offs, when agents …
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