Desirability and information processing: An experimental study

Alexander Gotthard-Real
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Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 152, issue C, 96-99

Abstract: I study, in an experimental setting, how individuals process news regarding the likelihood of an event that is desirable, but not ego-relevant. I hypothesize that individuals biasedly favor good news over bad news, but find no support for this hypothesis.

Keywords: Optimism; Wishful thinking; Belief updating; Bayes’ rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C9 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.01.012

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