• Biases in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic 

      Faia, Ester; Fuster, Andreas; Pezone, Vincenzo; Zafar, Basit (2021-02-10)
      How people form beliefs is crucial for understanding decision-making un- der uncertainty. This is particularly true in a situation such as a pandemic, where beliefs will affect behaviors that impact public health as well ...
    • Motivated Beliefs and the Elderly's Compliance with COVID-19 Measures 

      von Siemens, Ferdinand (2021-01-26)
      Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals ...
    • Survey_FFPZ_2021 

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      Two survey experiments (fielded in May 2020, with a total of over 4,000 respondents) designed to study how motivated beliefs affect information selection and processing during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first survey was ...