Preferences, beliefs, and heuristics
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چکیده
منابع مشابه
Beliefs and Social Preferences
Why do people sacrifice to help others in some situations, but not in others? Besides a direct taste for helping others, I study three additional psychological motivations that involve beliefs: social-signaling, which holds that a person wants others to think of her as fair-minded; self-signaling, which says she would like to think of herself that way; and beliefs-based altruism, which says tha...
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People tend to believe what they want to believe. In this paper, I examine how people interpret others’ behavior to form beliefs about others’ preferences. I develop a “selective beliefs” model of social preferences in which people have intrinsic preferences over outcomes and also hold prior beliefs about the preferences of others. I propose that people attempt to selectively perceive and inter...
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In strategic multiagent decision making, it is often the case that a strategic reasoner must hold beliefs about other agents and use these beliefs to inform its decision making. The behavior thus produced by the reasoner involves an interaction between the reasoner’s beliefs about other agents and the reasoner’s own preferences. A significant challenge faced by model designers, therefore, is ho...
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Ingroup favoritism-the tendency to favor members of one's own group over those in other groups-is well documented, but the mechanisms driving this behavior are not well understood. In particular, it is unclear to what extent ingroup favoritism is driven by preferences concerning the welfare of ingroup over outgroup members, vs. beliefs about the behavior of ingroup and outgroup members. In this...
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The Kőszegi-Rabin model of reference-dependent preferences proposes that the reference point to which consumption outcomes are compared is endogenously determined as a function of lagged, probabilistic beliefs. This paper presents an experiment designed to test some predictions of the Kőszegi-Rabin model. The design controls for potential confounds suggested by their theory. The experimental re...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0140-525X,1469-1825
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x05440145