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it is a result of motivation, causes agents with different motives to play a given game differently. When motivated …
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(Experiment 6). Overall, the results suggest motivation’s effect on BTA beliefs is driven more by idiosyncratic construals of …Are overconfident beliefs driven by the motivation to view oneself positively? We test the relationship between … motivation and overconfidence using two distinct, but often conflated measures: better-than-average (BTA) beliefs and …
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Gift givers are faced with the difficult task of choosing gifts that will be liked by gift recipients, and the challenging nature of this task often leads gift givers to unintentionally give poor gifts. The results of seven lab and field studies across 1,513 participants suggest that this...
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In reciprocal interactions, both genuine kindness and self-interested material gain may motivate socially beneficial actions. The paper presents results from two experiments that distinguish the role of perceived motives in reciprocal decision making from the role of outcomes or perceived...
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whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play …
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whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly, we designed an experiment in which participants have first to play binary …
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. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose … of this paper is to show that this narrow view of human motivation may severely limit understanding the determinants and …
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