Samir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents
and Goals in Evolution, analysing a mode of thinking in biology called agential thinking. He …

We conduct an experiment in which subjects face the same questions repeated multiple
times, with repetitions of two types:(1) following the literature, the repetitions are distant from …

This paper reviews the preconditions for successful applications of Experimental Economics
methods to research on transportation problems, as new transportation and research …

A key premise underlying most of the economic literature is that rational decision-makers will
choose dominant strategies over dominated alternatives. However, prior literature in various …

Many violations of the independence axiom of expected utility can be traced to subjects'
attraction to risk‐free prospects. The key axiom in this paper, negative certainty …

Political psychologists have been quick to use prospect theory in their work, realizing its
potential for explaining decisions under risk. Applying prospect theory to political decision …

Fuzzy-trace theory assumes that decision-makers process qualitative “gist” representations
and quantitative “verbatim” representations in parallel. We develop a lattice model of fuzzy …

We study experimental coordination games to examine through which transmission
channels and under which information conditions a panic-based depositor run at one bank …

We examine the reference-dependent risk preferences of Kőszegi and Rabin (2007),
focusing on their choice-acclimating personal equilibria. Although their model has only a …

Contests are commonly used in the workplace to motivate workers, determine promotion,
and assign bonuses. Although contests can be very effective at eliciting high effort, they can …