The Work for Environmental Protection Task: A consequential web-based procedure for studying pro-environmental behavior

F Lange, S Dewitte - Behavior Research Methods, 2022 - Springer
Some human behaviors have serious societal consequences, but these consequences tend
to be neglected in online research on societally relevant behaviors. For example, human …

Experimental tests of rational inattention

M Dean, N Neligh - Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
We use laboratory experiments to test models of rational inattention, in which people acquire
information to maximize utility net of information costs. We show that subjects adjust their …

What is (perception of) effort? Objective and subjective effort during task performance

J Steele - PsyArXiv, 2020 - pure.solent.ac.uk
Despite its apparent intuitiveness and widespread interest from across various fields,'effort'is
a variable that seems difficult to define. The purpose of this article is to consider and define …

Nudging drivers to safety: Evidence from a field experiment

V Choudhary, M Shunko, S Netessine… - Management …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Driving is an integral component of many operational systems, and any small improvement
in driving quality can have a significant effect on accidents, traffic, pollution, and the …

Discrimination reduces work effort of those who are disadvantaged and those who are advantaged by it

N Heiserman, B Simpson - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Research shows that discrimination is widespread in work organizations, yet we know little
about the causal effects of discrimination on employees' work effort. Here we argue that, by …

Measuring costly effort using the slider task

D Gill, V Prowse - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
Using real effort to implement costly activities increases the likelihood that the motivations
that drive effort provision in real life carry over to the laboratory. However, unobserved …

A meritocratic origin of egalitarian behaviour

AW Cappelen, J Mollerstrom, BA Reme… - The Economic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We report from a study of how uncertainty about whether a given inequality reflects
performance or luck shapes distributive behaviour. We show theoretically that the reaction to …

Do employees work less for female leaders? A multi-method study of entrepreneurial firms

O Kacperczyk, P Younkin, V Rocha - Organization Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We propose that female-founded ventures receive a lower amount of employee labor for
equal pay because employees are more likely to decline requests for additional labor by …

What consumers think about product self-assembly: Insights from big data

R Safi - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
As e-commerce expands rapidly from small inexpensive products to major ones, more
sellers design and deliver their products as unassembled, compact kits to make logistics …

Leadership selection: Can changing the default break the glass ceiling?

N Erkal, L Gangadharan, E Xiao - The Leadership Quarterly, 2022 - Elsevier
Leadership selection often requires candidates to actively choose to express their interest.
Using a series of incentivized experiments with more than 1000 participants, we compare …