Cognitive Dissonance, Imperfect Memory and the Preference for Increasing Payments
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Keywords
Cognitive Dissonance; Increasing Payments; Imperfect Memory; Imperfect Recall; Self-Perception Theory;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2007-11-03 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2007-11-03 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2007-11-03 (Labour Economics)
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