Confirmation bias with motivated beliefs

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2017.02.015MaRDI QIDQ2013331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gary Charness, Chetan Dave

Publication date 17 August 2017

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.02.015

zbMATH Keywords

experimentBayesian updatingconfirmation biasmotivated beliefs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Experimental studies (91A90)

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