作者：Thaler, Michael
作者单位：University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; University of London; University College London
摘要：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 preconceived beliefs. It analyzes how subjects assess the veracity of information sources that tell them the median of their belief distribution is too high or too low. Bayesians infer nothing about the source veracity , but motivated beliefs are evoked...
作者：Laferriere, Vincent; Montez, Joao; Roux, Catherine; Thoni, Christian
作者单位：University of Lausanne; University of Lausanne; University of Basel
摘要：We study experimentally the effect of multigame contact on cooperation, with each subject playing a pair of indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemmas. Multigame contact is present if a subject plays both games with a single partner, and it is absent if each of the two games is played with a different partner. In contrast to the theoretical prediction, multigame contact does not increase overall cooperation rates. Nonetheless, multigame contact systematically affects behavior and outcomes, acti...
