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Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment
The American Economic Review, 2023 Moral behavior is more prevalent when individuals cannot easily distort their beliefs self-servingly. Do individuals seek to limit or enable their ability to distort beliefs? How do these choices affect behavior?
Silvia Saccardo, Marta Serra-Garcia
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WHO IS ‘BEHAVIORAL’? COGNITIVE ABILITY AND ANOMALOUS PREFERENCES
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013 In this paper, we ask whether variation in preference anomalies is related to variation in cognitive ability. Evidence from a new laboratory study of Chilean high-school students with similar schooling backgrounds shows that small-stakes risk aversion ...
Daniel J. Benjamin +2 more
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Your Place in the World - Relative Income and Global Inequality
Social Science Research Network, 2021 There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality.
Dietmar Fehr +2 more
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A Statistical Explanation of the Dunning–Kruger Effect
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 An explanation of the Dunning–Kruger effect is provided which does not require any psychological explanation, because it is derived as a statistical artifact.
J. Magnus, A. Peresetsky
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The 'Fake News' Effect: Experimentally Identifying Motivated Reasoning Using Trust in News [PDF]
Social Science Research Network, 2020 Motivated reasoning posits that people distort how they process information in the direction of beliefs they find attractive. This paper creates a novel experimental design to identify motivated reasoning from Bayesian updating when people have ...
Michaela Thaler
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Confidence, Self-Selection and Bias in the Aggregate
Social Science Research Network, 2022 The influence of behavioral biases on aggregate outcomes depends in part on self-selection: whether rational people opt more strongly into aggregate interactions than biased individuals.
B. Enke, Thomas Graeber, Ryan Oprea
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Protecting the ego: Motivated information selection and updating
European Economic Review, 2022 We investigate how individuals search for ego-relevant information and then update their beliefs. In our lab experiment, subjects can select the information structure that gives them feedback regarding their rank in the IQ distribution (ego-relevant ...
Alessandro Castagnetti, Renke Schmacker
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Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence
The American Economic Review, 2023 A large theoretical literature argues laws exert a causal effect on norms, but empirical evidence remains scant. Using a novel identification strategy, we provide a compelling empirical test of this proposition.
T. Lane, Daniele Nosenzo, S. Sonderegger
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Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Social Science Research NetworkWe aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner’s dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others.
D. Gill, Yaroslav Rosokha
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Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks
The American Economic ReviewWithout strong assumptions about how noise manifests in choices, we can infer little from existing empirical observations of the common ratio effect (CRE) about whether there exists an underlying common ratio preference (CRP).
Christina McGranaghan +4 more
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