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Overconfidence and confirmation bias: are future managers vulnerable?
(2015-02-19)
Decision makers often use ‘rules of thumb’, or heuristics, to help them handling decision situations (Kahneman and Tversky, 1979b). Those cognitive shortcuts are taken by the brain to cope with complexity and time limitation ...
Confirmation bias in individual-level perceptions of psychic distance: an experimental investigation
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2015-11)
In this article we draw from social cognition theory to explore the influence of confirmation bias on perceptions of psychic distance. Despite the prominence of psychic distance, and other forms of distance, as potential ...
The Nature of Real and Perceived Bias in Chilean Media
(2017)
News consumers expect news outlets to be objective and balanced in their reports of events. However, there is a body of evidence of bias in the media caused by underlying political and socio-economic viewpoints. Previous ...
Modulation of the leniency bias in the discursive dilemma
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2018-11-06)
We experimentally approach the discursive dilemma to gain insight into people´s procedural appropriateness judgments. We relied on a vignette in which three people had formed opinions about two skills (premises) of a ...
A survey on the Brazilian Assets, its performance and the investing behavioral biases of its Investment Fund Managers
(Centro de Estudos em Finanças (GVcef), 2015)
Behavioral Investing Biases are cognitive and emotional aspects that may intervene in investment decisions. In order to search for evidences of behavioral biases in the Investment Fund Managers (IFM) in Brazil, a survey ...
Linguistic evidence of in-group bias in English and Spanish Wikipedia articles about international conflicts
(Elsevier, 2020-06)
The aim of this study is to identify linguistic categories which could be bias indicators in both English and Spanish versions of Wikipedia articles about international conflicts. In this sense, Appraisal analysis ...
Bias and size effects of price-comparison search engines: theory and experimental evidence
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2005-12-15)
We analyze the impact on consumer prices of the size and bias of price comparison search engines. In the context of a model related to Burdett and Judd (1983) and Varian (1980), we develop and test experimentally several ...
Perceptions and strategies of “confirmation bias” in the process of seeking and using informationPercepções e estratégias relacionadas ao “viés de confirmação” por pesquisadores no processo de busca e uso da informação
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Biblioteconomia e Comunicação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação (Porto Alegre/RS), 2021)
Attitude polarization: theory and evidence
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2014)
Numerous experiments have demonstrated the possibility of attitude polarization.For instance, Lord, Ross & Leper (1979) found that death penalty advocates becamemore convinced of the deterrent e§ect of the death penalty ...
When do populations polarize? An explanation
(Universidad de Montevideo, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economía, Departamento de Economía, 2018)
Numerous experiments demonstrate attitude polarization. For instance, Lord, Ross & Lepper presented subjects with the same mixed evidence on the deterrent effect of the death penalty. Both believers and skeptics of its ...