Everyone believes in redemption: Nudges and overoptimism in costly task completion

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 107, Issue PA, 2014, Pages 107-122

  Tasoff, Joshua ^a   Letzler, Robert ^b  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Government Accountability Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Nudges; Overconfidence; Overoptimism; Rebates; Weak cost salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907682637     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.08.011     Document Type: Article

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