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Eating dogfood: Examining the relative roles of reason and emotion
Schulze, William; Maertens, Annemie; Wansink, Brian - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 92 (2013) C, pp. 202-213
Psychologists have described the working of the human brain as a combination of two systems – a dual process model. One system is intuitive and automatic (System 1) and the other is reflective and rational (System 2). To determine what insights this model has for stigma – such as fears of...
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Lifecycle consumption plans, social learning and external habits: Experimental evidence
Carbone, Enrica; Duffy, John - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 413-427
We report results from a laboratory experiment exploring the extent to which individuals can solve a deterministic …
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Search costs and adaptive consumers: Short time delays do not affect choice quality
Sonntag, Axel - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 113 (2015) C, pp. 64-79
experiment by not providing information immediately when requested but after short time delays. Increasing these waiting times …
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Inequity aversion and advantage seeking with asymmetric competition
Cox, Caleb A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 86 (2013) C, pp. 121-136
In this experiment I study a novel three-player ultimatum game in which two proposers with unequal amounts of money …
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Self-image and moral balancing: An experimental analysis
Ploner, Matteo; Regner, Tobias - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 374-383
In our experiment, a dictator game variant, the reported outcome of a die roll determines the endowment (low/high) in a … enter the result of the roll themselves. Moral self-image is also manipulated in the experiment preceding ours. The aim of …
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Deception: The role of guilt
Battigalli, Pierpaolo; Charness, Gary; Dufwenberg, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 227-232
Evidence suggests that whether or not people dislike lying is situation-dependent. We argue that the theory of simple guilt can accommodate this well.
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Do voluntary payments to advisors improve the quality of financial advice? An experimental deception game
Angelova, Vera; Regner, Tobias - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 205-218
The market for retail financial products (e.g., investment funds or insurances) is marred by information asymmetries. Clients are not well informed about the quality of these products. They have to rely on the recommendations of advisors. Incentives of advisors and clients may not be aligned,...
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On the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures
Jahedi, Salar; Méndez, Fabio - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 98 (2014) C, pp. 97-114
This paper utilizes data from a laboratory experiment in order to examine the advantages and disadvantages of …
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An experimental test of the efficacy of a simple reputation mechanism to solve social dilemmas
Stahl, Dale O. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 94 (2013) C, pp. 116-124
Dilemma. We designed an experiment to test this result. We found that while the level of cooperation steadily declined without …
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Transparency, efficiency and the distribution of economic welfare in pass-through investment trust games
Rietz, Thomas A.; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Shields, Timothy W. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 94 (2013) C, pp. 257-267
We design an experiment to examine behavior and welfare in a multi-level trust game representing a pass through … investment in an intermediated market. In a repeated game, an investor invests via an intermediary who lends to a borrower. A pre-experiment …
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