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Preference Discovery

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Is the assumption that people automatically know their own preferences innocuous? We present a theory and an experiment that study the limits of preference discovery. If tastes must be learned through experience,

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Title Preference Discovery
Author Delaney, Jason
Author Jacobson, Sarah
Author Moenig, Thorsten
Department Economics
Type of Resource text
Genre Working Paper
Date Issued 2019-07-01
Language eng
Description Is the assumption that people automatically know their own preferences innocuous? We present a theory and an experiment that study the limits of preference discovery. If tastes must be learned through experience,
Institutional Affiliation Georgia Gwinnett College
Institutional Affiliation Williams College
Institutional Affiliation Temple University
Subject discovered preferences
Subject preference stability
Subject learning
doi https://doi.org/10.36934/wecon:2019-008
JEL Descriptor D81, D83, D01, D03
collection MC 333
Rights Copyright retained by authors.
ORCID https://orchid.org/0000-0002-2052-5627
ORCID https://orchid.org/0000-0001-7980-1705
Version Number This is a revised version of WP 2017-02
RePec wil:wileco:2019-08
Journal Economics Working Papers. Williams College. Department of Economics.
Version of Record Experimental Economics; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-019-09628-9
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