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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
On the use of honesty priming task to mitigate hypothetical bias in choice
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| Autores: |
de Magistris, Tiziana
Gracia, Azucena
Nayga, Rodolfo M., Jr.
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| Data: |
2012-05-21
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| Ano: |
2012
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| Palavras-chave: |
Hypothetical bias
Cheap talk
Priming
Willingness-to-pay
Marketing
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
C23
D12
Q18
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| Resumo: |
We test whether the use of an honesty priming task from the social psychology literature can help mitigate hypothetical bias in stated preference choice experiments (CE). Using a between-sample design, we conducted experiments with five treatments: (1) hypothetical CE without cognitive task, (2) hypothetical CE with cheap talk script, (3) hypothetical CE with neutral priming task, (4) hypothetical CE with honesty priming task, and (5) non-hypothetical CE. Results generally suggest that marginal willingness to pay estimates from treatment 4 where subjects are given honesty priming task before the choice experiment are not statistically different from marginal valuations from treatment 5 where subjects are in a non-hypothetical choice experiment. Values from both these treatments are significantly lower than those from other three hypothetical treatments (treatments 1-3). Using hold out tasks, our results also suggest that one could get higher percentage of correct predictions of participants’ choices in treatments 4 and 5 than in treatments 1-3 and that there is no significant difference in percentage of correct predictions between treatments 4 and 5.
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| Tipo: |
Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/123639
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington
Poster
638
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