A note on motivated cognition and discriminatory beliefs
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2024.08.002
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version below or search for a different version of it.
Other versions of this item:
- Lasse Stötzer & Florian Zimmermann, 2022. "A Note on Motivated Cognition and Discriminatory Beliefs," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 203, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
- Lasse S. Stötzer & Florian Zimmermann, 2022. "A Note on Motivated Cognition and Discriminatory Beliefs," CESifo Working Paper Series 10019, CESifo.
References listed on IDEAS
- Alberto Alesina & Armando Miano & Stefanie Stantcheva, 2023.
"Immigration and Redistribution,"
The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 90(1), pages 1-39.
- Alberto Alesina & Armando Miano & Stefanie Stantcheva, 2018. "Immigration and Redistribution," NBER Working Papers 24733, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Stantcheva, Stefanie & Alesina, Alberto & Miano, Armando, 2022. "Immigration and Redistribution," CEPR Discussion Papers 13035, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Alesina, Alberto & Murard, Elie & Rapoport, Hillel, 2019.
"Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe,"
IZA Discussion Papers
12130, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Alberto Alesina & Elie Murard & Hillel Rapoport, 2021. "Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe," Post-Print halshs-03672695, HAL.
- Alesina, Alberto & Murard, Elie & Rapoport, Hillel, 2019. "Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe," CEPR Discussion Papers 14211, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Alberto Alesina & Elie Murard & Hillel Rapoport, 2019. "Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe," Working Papers 2019-15, CEPII research center.
- Alberto Alesina & Elie Murard & Hillel Rapoport, 2019. "Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe," NBER Working Papers 25562, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Alberto Alesina & Elie Murard & Hillel Rapoport, 2021. "Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe," PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint) halshs-03672695, HAL.
- Haisley, Emily C. & Weber, Roberto A., 2010. "Self-serving interpretations of ambiguity in other-regarding behavior," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 68(2), pages 614-625, March.
- Markus M. Möbius & Muriel Niederle & Paul Niehaus & Tanya S. Rosenblat, 2022.
"Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence,"
Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(11), pages 7793-7817, November.
- Markus M. Mobius & Muriel Niederle & Paul Niehaus & Tanya Rosenblat, 2011. "Managing self-confidence: theory and experimental evidence," Working Papers 11-14, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
- Markus M. Mobius & Muriel Niederle & Paul Niehaus & Tanya S. Rosenblat, 2011. "Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence," NBER Working Papers 17014, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Jean Tirole & Roland Bénabou, 2006.
"Incentives and Prosocial Behavior,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 96(5), pages 1652-1678, December.
- Bénabou, Roland & Tirole, Jean, 2003. "Incentives and Prosocial Behavior," IDEI Working Papers 389, Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, revised Jan 2006.
- Roland Bénabou & Jean Tirole, 2006. "Incentives and Prosocial Behavior," Post-Print hal-00173700, HAL.
- Roland Bénabou & Jean Tirole, 2005. "Incentives and Prosocial Behavior," NBER Working Papers 11535, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Roland Benabou & Jean Tirole, 2004. "Incentives and Prosocial Behavior," Working Papers 137, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Discussion Papers in Economics.
- Tirole, Jean & Bénabou, Roland, 2004. "Incentives and Prosocial Behaviour," CEPR Discussion Papers 4633, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Benabou, Roland & Tirole, Jean, 2005. "Incentives and Prosocial Behavior," IZA Discussion Papers 1695, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Roland Bénabou & Jean Tirole, 2011. "Identity, Morals, and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 126(2), pages 805-855.
- Christian Dustmann & Kristine Vasiljeva & Anna Piil Damm, 2019.
"Refugee Migration and Electoral Outcomes,"
The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 86(5), pages 2035-2091.
- Christian Dustman & Kristine Vasiljeva & Anna Piil Damm, 2016. "Refugee Migration and Electoral Outcomes," RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series 1619, Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).
- Kühne, Simon & Jacobsen, Jannes & Kroh, Martin, 2019. "Sampling in Times of High Immigration: The Survey Process of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
- Florian Zimmermann, 2020.
"The Dynamics of Motivated Beliefs,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 110(2), pages 337-361, February.
- Florian Zimmermann, 2019. "The Dynamics of Motivated Beliefs," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2019_073, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
- Zachary Grossman & Joël J. van der Weele, 2017. "Self-Image and Willful Ignorance in Social Decisions," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 15(1), pages 173-217.
- Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen & Tobias Gesche, 2016. "Persistent bias in advice-giving," ECON - Working Papers 228, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Oct 2017.
- Rafael Di Tella & Ricardo Perez-Truglia & Andres Babino & Mariano Sigman, 2015. "Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others' Altruism," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 105(11), pages 3416-3442, November.
- Francesca Gino & Michael I. Norton & Roberto A. Weber, 2016. "Motivated Bayesians: Feeling Moral While Acting Egoistically," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 30(3), pages 189-212, Summer.
- Benabou, Roland & Falk, Armin & Tirole, Jean, 2018.
"Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning,"
IZA Discussion Papers
11665, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Roland Bénabou & Armin Falk & Jean Tirole, 2019. "Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2019_070, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
- Roland Bénabou & Armin Falk & Jean Tirole, 2018. "Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning," NBER Working Papers 24798, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Roland Bènabou & Armin Falk & Jean Tirole, 2018. "Narratives, Imperatives and Moral Reasoning," Working Papers 2018-049, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
- Bénabou, Roland & Falk, Armin & Tirole, Jean, 2018. "Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning," CEPR Discussion Papers 13056, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Roland Benabou & Armin Falk & Jean Tirole, 2018. "Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning," Working Papers id:12918, eSocialSciences.
- Edward L. Glaeser, 2005. "The Political Economy of Hatred," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 120(1), pages 45-86.
- J. Aislinn Bohren & Alex Imas & Michael Rosenberg, 2019.
"The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 109(10), pages 3395-3436, October.
- Aislinn Bohren & Alex Imas & Michael Rosenberg, 2017. "The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence," PIER Working Paper Archive 17-021, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, revised 18 Nov 2017.
- Aislinn Bohren & Alex Imas & Michael Rosenberg, 2018. "The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence," PIER Working Paper Archive 18-016, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, revised 01 Jul 2018.
- Bohren, Aislinn & Imas, Alex & Rosenberg, Michael, 2018. "The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence," CEPR Discussion Papers 13113, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Barone, Guglielmo & D'Ignazio, Alessio & de Blasio, Guido & Naticchioni, Paolo, 2016. "Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics. The role of immigration in shaping natives' voting behavior," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 1-13.
- Elisabeth Jeffries, 2017. "Nationalist advance," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 7(7), pages 469-471, July.
- Alberto Alesina & Stefanie Stantcheva, 2020.
"Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution,"
AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 110, pages 329-334, May.
- Alberto F. Alesina & Stefanie Stantcheva, 2020. "Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution," NBER Working Papers 26620, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Schwardmann, Peter & van der Weele, Joel, 2019. "Deception and self-deception," Munich Reprints in Economics 78222, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
- Alberto Alesina & Elie Murard & Hillel Rapoport, 2021. "Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe1 [Goodbye Lenin (or not): the effect of communism on people’s preferences]," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 21(6), pages 925-954.
- A Falk & T Neuber & N Szech, 2020.
"Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes,"
The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 87(5), pages 2205-2229.
- Armin Falk & Nora Szech, 2016. "Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes," Working Papers 2016-013, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
- Falk, Armin & Szech, Nora, 2017. "Diffusion of being pivotal and immoral outcomes," Working Paper Series in Economics 111, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Department of Economics and Management.
- Charness, Gary & Dave, Chetan, 2017. "Confirmation bias with motivated beliefs," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 1-23.
- James Konow, 2000. "Fair Shares: Accountability and Cognitive Dissonance in Allocation Decisions," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 90(4), pages 1072-1091, September.
- Martin Halla & Alexander F. Wagner & Josef Zweimüller, 2017.
"Immigration and Voting for the Far Right,"
Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 15(6), pages 1341-1385.
- Zweimüller, Josef & Wagner, Alexander F. & Halla, Martin, 2012. "Immigration and Voting for the Far Right," CEPR Discussion Papers 9102, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Stephen V. Burks & Jeffrey P. Carpenter & Lorenz Goette & Aldo Rustichini, 2013. "Overconfidence and Social Signalling," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 80(3), pages 949-983.
- Mara Ewers & Florian Zimmermann, 2015.
"Image And Misreporting,"
Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 13(2), pages 363-380, April.
- Ewers, Mara & Zimmermann, Florian, 2012. "Image and Misreporting," IZA Discussion Papers 6425, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- David Eil & Justin M. Rao, 2011. "The Good News-Bad News Effect: Asymmetric Processing of Objective Information about Yourself," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 3(2), pages 114-138, May.
- Christine L. Exley, 2016. "Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving: The Role of Risk," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 83(2), pages 587-628.
- Gary Charness & Aldo Rustichini & Jeroen Ven, 2018.
"Self-confidence and strategic behavior,"
Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 21(1), pages 72-98, March.
- Gary Charness & Aldo Rustichini & Jeroen van de Ven, 2013. "Self-Confidence and Strategic Behavior," CESifo Working Paper Series 4517, CESifo.
- Silvia Saccardo & Marta Serra-Garcia, 2023. "Enabling or Limiting Cognitive Flexibility? Evidence of Demand for Moral Commitment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 113(2), pages 396-429, February.
- Jason Dana & Roberto Weber & Jason Kuang, 2007. "Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 33(1), pages 67-80, October.
- Peter Schwardmann & Joël van der Weele, 2019. "Deception and self-deception," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 3(10), pages 1055-1061, October.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Gangadharan, Lata & Grossman, Philip J. & Xue, Nina, 2024. "Belief elicitation under competing motivations: Does it matter how you ask?," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
- Andrea Amelio & Florian Zimmermann, 2023.
"Motivated Memory in Economics—A Review,"
Games, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-15, January.
- Andrea Amelio & Florian Zimmermann, 2022. "Motivated Memory in Economics - a Review," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 213, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
- Ging-Jehli, Nadja R. & Schneider, Florian H. & Weber, Roberto A., 2020.
"On self-serving strategic beliefs,"
Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 341-353.
- Nadja R. Ging-Jehli & Florian H. Schneider & Roberto A. Weber, 2019. "On self-serving strategic beliefs," ECON - Working Papers 315, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.
- Nadja R. Ging-Jehli & Florian H. Schneider & Roberto A. Weber, 2019. "On Self-Serving Strategic Beliefs," CESifo Working Paper Series 7517, CESifo.
- Silvia Saccardo & Marta Serra-Garcia, 2020. "Cognitive Flexibility or Moral Commitment? Evidence of Anticipated Belief Distortion," CESifo Working Paper Series 8529, CESifo.
- Gneezy, Uri & Saccardo, Silvia & Serra-Garcia, Marta & van Veldhuizen, Roel, 2020.
"Bribing the Self,"
EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 120, pages 311-324.
- Gneezy, Uri & Saccardo, Silvia & Serra-Garcia, Marta & van Veldhuizen, Roel, 2020. "Bribing the Self," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 311-324.
- Uri Gneezy & Silvia Saccardo & Marta Serra-Garcia & Roel van Veldhuizen, 2020. "Bribing the Self," CESifo Working Paper Series 8065, CESifo.
- Hajdu, Gergely, 2024.
"Excusing Beliefs about Third-party Success,"
Department of Economics Working Paper Series
362, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
- Gergely Hajdu, 2024. "Excusing Beliefs about Third-party Success," Department of Economics Working Papers wuwp362, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics.
- Marie Claire Villeval, 2019.
"Comportements (non) éthiques et stratégies morales,"
Revue économique, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 70(6), pages 1021-1046.
- Marie Claire Villeval, 2019. "Comportements (non) éthiques et stratégies morales," Post-Print halshs-02445185, HAL.
- Lata Gangadharan & Philip J. Grossman & Nina Xue, 2021. "Identifying self-image concerns from motivated beliefs: Does it matter how and whom you ask?," Monash Economics Working Papers 2021-17, Monash University, Department of Economics.
- Anton Suvorov & Jeroen van de Ven & Marie Claire Villeval, 2024. "Selective Information Sharing and Group Delusion," Working Papers 2405, Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon.
- Lata Gangadharan & Philip J. Grossman & Nina Xue, 2022. "Stepping Stone: Identifying self-image concerns from motivated beliefs: Does it matter how and whom you ask?," Monash Economics Working Papers 2022-05, Monash University, Department of Economics.
- Stephanie A. Heger & Robert Slonim & Franziska Tausch, 2022. "Self-serving dishonesty: The role of confidence in driving dishonesty," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 64(3), pages 235-250, June.
- Vanessa Valero, 2022. "Redistribution and beliefs about the source of income inequality," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 25(3), pages 876-901, June.
- Peter Schwardmann & Joël van der Weele, 2016.
"Deception and Self-Deception,"
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
16-012/I, Tinbergen Institute.
- Schwardmann, Peter & van der Weele, Joel, 2017. "Deception and Self-Deception," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 25, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
- Huang, Wei & Wang, Yu & Zhao, Xiaojian, 2024.
"Motivated Beliefs, Independence and Cooperation,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
- Wei Huang & Yu Wang & Xiaojian Zhao, 2023. "Motivated Beliefs, Independence and Cooperation," Monash Economics Working Papers 2023-08, Monash University, Department of Economics.
- Zhuoqiong (Charlie) Chen & Tobias Gesche, 2016. "Persistent bias in advice-giving," ECON - Working Papers 228, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Oct 2017.
- Bicchieri, Cristina & Dimant, Eugen & Sonderegger, Silvia, 2023. "It's not a lie if you believe the norm does not apply: Conditional norm-following and belief distortion," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 321-354.
- Jeanne Hagenbach & Charlotte Saucet, 2024. "Motivated Skepticism," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03770685, HAL.
- Cristina Bicchieri & Eugen Dimant, 2018.
"It's Not A Lie If You Believe It. Lying and Belief Distortion Under Norm-Uncertainty,"
PPE Working Papers
0012, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
- Cristina Bicchieri & Eugen Dimant & Silvia Sonderegger, 2019. "It's Not A Lie If You Believe It: On Norms, Lying, and Self-Serving Belief Distortion," Discussion Papers 2019-07, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.
- Hestermann, Nina & Le Yaouanq, Yves & Treich, Nicolas, 2020.
"An economic model of the meat paradox,"
European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
- Hestermann, Nina & Le Yaouanq, Yves & Treich, Nicolas, 2019. "An Economic Model of the Meat Paradox," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 164, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
- Nina Hestermann & Yves Le Yaouanq & Nicolas Treich, 2020. "An economic model of the meat paradox," Post-Print hal-03162442, HAL.
- Hestermann, Nina & Le Yaouanq, Yves & Treich, Nicolas, 2020. "An economic model of the meat paradox," TSE Working Papers 20-1141, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
- Hestermann, Nina & Le Yaouanq, Yves & Treich, Nicolas, 2020. "An economic model of the meat paradox," Munich Reprints in Economics 84734, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
- Heinicke, Franziska & König-Kersting, Christian & Schmidt, Robert, 2022. "Injunctive vs. descriptive social norms and reference group dependence," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 195(C), pages 199-218.
More about this item
Keywords
Discrimination; Stereotypes; Racism; Motivated reasoning; Beliefs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:gamebe:v:147:y:2024:i:c:p:554-562. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/inca/622836 .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.