#25 – Julia Shvets on Overconfidence, Rank Incentives, and Lab vs Field Experiments
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The Theory of Motivator Beliefs
If this theory of motivator beliefs is true, then there must be some sort of mechanism or some sort of role that we actually formed these beliefs. And you pointed out in your paper about the importance of memory and how memory might play a role here. So let's unpack this idea of motivated belief than before we get onto your study about ashdetested this er. N can you talk about that again? The idea of a memory playing a role here all comes from psychology. For us the point of departure was the paper by benbontroll where they say, look, on the one hand, there may be demand for over confidence from people. And that's what we've just
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