To date, field experiments on campaign tactics have focused overwhelmingly on mobilization and voter turnout, with far more limited…
Reputations often guide sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider situations where each player is randomly matched…
Direct experiences, we find, influence environmental risk beliefs more than the indirect experiences derived from outcomes to others. This…
This last week’s deeply contrasting stories of two New Englanders caught in the Middle East’s maelstrom of violence — the savage murder of…
After piling up trillions of dollars of war debt during the last decade, America seemed to be on the brink of a new era -- ready to shut…
Senior government executives make many decisions, not-infrequently difficult ones. Cognitive limitations and biases preclude individuals…
Senior government executives make many difficult decisions, but research suggests that individual cognitive limitations and the pathologies…
The premise of this article is that an understanding of psychology and other social science disciplines can inform the effectiveness of the…
We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical annuitization choices. We find that allowing individuals to annuitize a fraction…