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14. Mai 2024 · Eine Schlüsseltheorie zur Erklärung dieser Phänomene ist die Information-Gap-Theorie von George Loewenstein. Laut dieser Theorie entsteht Neugier aus einem wahrgenommenen Mangel an Wissen oder Verständnis. Wenn Menschen auf Informationen stoßen, die eine Lücke in ihrem Wissen aufzeigen, empfinden sie Neugier und sind motiviert ...
16. Mai 2024 · Our sense of what would constitute a fair conflict resolution is biased by egocentrism, or the tendency to have difficulty seeing a situation from another person’s perspective, research by Carnegie Mellon University professors Linda Babcock and George Loewenstein and their colleagues’ shows.
1. Mai 2024 · You’re correct to assume you’d be happier with a new car than a new tumor. But as Loewenstein, O’Donoghue, and Rabin remind us, we overestimate how changes will affect us. Simply taking the ...
Vor 3 Tagen · This paper examines the role of individuals’ emotions in determining their concerns about international migration. For the empirical analysis, we exploit little-explored information in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data on individuals’ negative emotions, e.g., anger, fear, and sadness. We find that the frequency of experiencing negative emotions is positively associated with ...
2. Mai 2024 · A quarter of a century ago, the behavioural economist George Loewenstein addressed that question. He focused on the experiences of mountaineers and polar explorers, which he summarised as “unrelenting misery from beginning to end”, and dangerous, too. He wanted to expand upon George Mallory’s reported answer to the question ...
Vor 4 Tagen · We thank the editor Luc Leaven and one anonymous referee for their helpful comments. We further thank Simon Gächter, Nicola Gennaioli, Jeff Hales, Michael Kosfeld, Roberto Weber, and seminar participants in Chicago, Kiel, Lausanne, Singapore, Ulm and Zurich as well as participants at several conferences and workshops for helpful comments and suggestions.
16. Mai 2024 · Research by George Loewenstein aims to answer the why questions. Loewenstein helped establish the field of research known as behavioral economics and the field of neuroeconomics to examine why people make their economic choices.
