Abstract
I present the key ideas and results from recent work incorporating "motivated" belief distortions into Economics, both at the individual level (overconfidence, wishful thinking, willful blindness) and at the social one (groupthink, team morale, market exuberance and crises). To do so I develop a flexible model that unifies much of this line of research, then relate its main assumptions and testable predictions to the relevant experimental and observational evidence.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 665-685 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Revue d'Economie Politique |
Volume | 125 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Political Science and International Relations
Keywords
- Anticipatory utility
- Beliefs
- Cognitive biases
- Cognitive dissonance
- Financial crisis
- Group morale
- Groupthink
- Hubris
- Information aversion
- Market exuberance
- Memory
- Motivated cognition
- Non-Bayesian updating
- Organizational culture
- Overconfidence
- Psychology
- Speculative bubbles
- Willful ignorance
- Wishful thinking