Journal article
Reference Dependence and Attribution Bias: Evidence from Real-Effort Experimentst
American economic journal. Microeconomics, Vol.15(2), pp.271-308
05/01/2023
DOI: 10.1257/mic.20210031
Abstract
We document a form of attribution bias wherein people wrongly ascribe sensations of positive or negative surprise to the underly-ing disutility of a real-effort task. Participants in our experiments learned from experience about two unfamiliar tasks, one more onerous than the other. We manipulated expectations about which task they would face: some participants were assigned their task by chance, while others knew their assignment in advance. Hours later, we elicited willingness to work again on that same task. Participants assigned the less (more) onerous task by chance were more (less) willing to work than those who knew their assignment in advance. (JEL C91, D84, D91, M54)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reference Dependence and Attribution Bias: Evidence from Real-Effort Experimentst
- Creators
- Benjamin Bushong - Michigan State UniversityTristan Gagnon-Bartsch - Florida State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American economic journal. Microeconomics, Vol.15(2), pp.271-308
- Publisher
- Amer Economic Assoc
- DOI
- 10.1257/mic.20210031
- ISSN
- 1945-7669
- eISSN
- 1945-7685
- Number of pages
- 38
- Grant note
- Eric M. Mindich Research Fund for the Foundations of Human Behavior
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2023
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984696577002771
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