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  1. Strategic ignorance and perceived control
    Author: Balietti, Anca; Budjan, Angelika J.; Eymess, Tillmann; Soldà, Alice
    Published: 18 Aug. 2023
    Publisher:  Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Heidelberg

    Information can trigger unpleasant emotions. As a result, individuals might be tempted to willfully ignore it. We experimentally investigate whether increasing perceived control can mitigate strategic ignorance. Participants from India were presented... more

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    Information can trigger unpleasant emotions. As a result, individuals might be tempted to willfully ignore it. We experimentally investigate whether increasing perceived control can mitigate strategic ignorance. Participants from India were presented with a choice to receive information about the health risk associated with air pollution and later asked to recall it. We find that perceived control leads to a substantial improvement in information retention. Moreover, perceived control mostly benefits optimists, who show both a reduction in information avoidance and an increase in information retention. This latter result is confirmed with a US sample. A theoretical framework rationalizes these findings.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: AWI discussion paper series ; no. 730 (August 2023)
    Subjects: Luftverschmutzung; information avoidance; information retention; perceived control; motivated cognition; air pollution
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (55 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Strategic ignorance and perceived control
    Author: Balietti, Anca; Budjan, Angelika J.; Eymess, Tillmann; Soldà, Alice
    Published: September 13, 2023
    Publisher:  Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Heidelberg

    Information can trigger unpleasant emotions. As a result, individuals might be tempted to strategically ignore it. We experimentally investigate whether increasing perceived control can mitigate strategic ignorance. Participants from India were... more

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    Information can trigger unpleasant emotions. As a result, individuals might be tempted to strategically ignore it. We experimentally investigate whether increasing perceived control can mitigate strategic ignorance. Participants from India were presented with a choice to receive information about the health risk associated with air pollution and were later asked to recall it. Perceived control leads to a substantial improvement in information recall. We find that optimists react most to perceived control, both with a reduction in information avoidance and an increase in information recall. This latter result is supported by a US sample. A theoretical framework rationalizes our findings.

     
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    Series: AWI discussion paper series ; no. 735 (September 2023)
    Subjects: Luftverschmutzung; information avoidance; information recall; perceived control; motivated cognition; air pollution
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (101 Seiten), Illustrationen, Diagramme
  3. Anticipatory anxiety and wishful thinking
    Author: Engelmann, Jan; LeBreton, Maël; Salem-Garcia, Nahuel; Schwardmann, Peter; Weele, Joël J. van der
    Published: 13 November 2022
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: Array ; DP17665
    Subjects: confidence; beliefs; anticipatory utility; anxiety; motivated cognition
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 85 Seiten), Illustrationen
  4. Motivated procrastination
    Author: Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon
    Published: April 2024
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for... more

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    Procrastination is often attributed to time-inconsistent preferences but may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding optimistic beliefs about their future effort costs. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of ‘motivated procrastination’. In a longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals must complete a cumbersome task of unknown length. We find that exogenous variation in scope for motivated reasoning results in optimistic beliefs among workers, which causally increase the deferral of work to the future. The roots for biased beliefs stem from motivated memory, such that procrastination may persist even if uncertainty is eventually resolved.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 11072 (2024)
    Subjects: anticipatory utility; beliefs; memory; motivated cognition; procrastination; real effort; task allocation
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 52 Seiten), Illustrationen
  5. Motivated procrastination
    Author: Cordes, Charlotte A.; Friedrichsen, Jana; Schudy, Simeon
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190, [München]

    Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need to... more

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    Traditionally, economic models have attributed procrastination to present bias. However, procrastination may also arise when individuals derive anticipatory utility from holding motivated, overly optimistic beliefs about the workload they need to complete. This study provides a rigorous empirical test for this notion of `motivated procrastination'. In a longitudinal experiment over four weeks, individuals have to complete a cumbersome task of unknown length. They are exposed to exogenous variation in i) their expectation regarding their workload and ii) scope for motivated reasoning. We find that scope for motivated reasoning allows workers to hold substantially more optimistic beliefs and identify a causal link between the exogenous variation in beliefs and the deferral of work to the future. This systematic belief-based delay of work (motivated procrastination) turns out to be robust to accounting for decision-makers' time preferences and emotional responses, and looms largest for decision makers who tend to not acquire information that may include negative news.

     
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    Language: English
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    Series: Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; no. 471 (December 03, 2023)
    Subjects: anticipatory utility; beliefs; memory; motivated cognition; procrastination; real effort; task allocation
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 46 Seiten), Illustrationen