Behavioural Papers

Keller & Szkal

Students randomly assigned passage with certain sections altered, framed positively and negatively. How people reacted depends on their motivations. But people do react differently

Hanks 2012

School lunch choice architecture. Pre period for control, then introduce express route for healthier food options. Convenience mattered.

Shafir & Thaler 2006

Testing sunk cost fallacy through bottle of wine selling experiment. Minimal economic testing here just survey.

Beggs & Grady 2009

Testing anchoring in bidding scenario where high previous prices influenced future valuations for both buyers and sellers. But was it anchoring or just rational updating? Disentangle this effect through a predictive model of pricing.

Redelmeier & Shaffir 1995

Testing if increasing the number of options increases probability of status quo (mental overload). It violates the regularity principle. Neurologists chooses male 38% then 58% of time when another woman is added.

Sellier 2019

Shows one shot debiasing training can improve decision making in the long term, no need for regular training

Sanfey 2003

Human v Computer unfair offers, more willing to accept unfair offer from computer because rejection is used as punishment (utilised derived from expressing dissatisfaction)

Knoch 2006

Which part of the brain sparked in ultimatum game under different offer types. Done through suppressing certain brain channels.

Xiao and Houser 2005

Does allowing communication increase offers accepted because of the ability to express anger. This is after sending so does not monetarily affect the game.

Sokol-Hessner 2013

Amygdala corresponds with loss aversion.

De Martino 2010

Amygdala corresponds with risk aversion.