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100 _aNielsen, Kirby and Rehbeck, John
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245 _aWhen choices are mistakes
260 _aThe American Economic Review
300 _a112(7), Jul, 2022: p.2237-2268
520 _aUsing a laboratory experiment, we identify whether decision-makers consider it a mistake to violate canonical choice axioms. To do this, we incentivize subjects to report axioms they want their decisions to satisfy. Then, subjects make lottery choices which might conflict with their axiom preferences. In instances of conflict, we give subjects the opportunity to re-evaluate their decisions. We find that many individuals want to follow canonical axioms and revise their choices to be consistent with the axioms. In a shorter online experiment, we show correlations of mistakes with response times and measures of cognition. – Reproduced
773 _aThe American Economic Review
906 _aDECISION MAKING
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