WP 2013

WP 2013-03 Revealed Preference and the Strength/Weight Hypothesis

Posted On April 16, 2013
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AUTHORS: Constantinos Antoniou, Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, Daniel Read

ABSTRACT. The strength/weight hypothesis is the claim that people are more persuaded by extreme evidence (high strength) than by reliable evidence (high weight), even when these two dimensions of evidence are diagnostically equivalent according to Bayes Rule. We investigate whether this hypothesis… more »

WP 2013-02 Dual Criteria Decisions

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Published in 2014 in Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 41.

AUTHORS: Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison, Morten Igel Lau, and E. Elisabet Rutström

ABSTRACT. The most popular models of decision making use a single criterion to evaluate projects or lotteries. However, decision makers may actually consider multiple criteria when evaluating projects. We… more »

WP 2013-01 Subjective Belief Distributions and the Characterization of Economic Literacy

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Published in 2015 in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 59.

AUTHORS: Amalia Di Girolamo, Glenn W. Harrison, Morten I. Lau, and J. Todd Swarthout

ABSTRACT. We characterize the literacy of an individual in a domain by their elicited subjective belief distribution over the possible responses to a question posed in… more »