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Jewish and not Jewish consumers’ preferences for a typical kosher product – an artefactual field experiment 犹太和非犹太消费者对典型洁食产品的偏好——人工实地实验

IF 1.4 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102456

Ágoston Temesi , Tamás Harci , Brigitta Unger-Plasek , Zoltán Lakner , László Bendegúz Nagy , Riccardo Vecchio

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Experimental methods: Learning your own risk preferences under different risk elicitation methods 实验方法：了解自己在不同风险诱导方法下的风险偏好

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102450

Rocco Caferra , Andrea Morone , Donato Pierno

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Advancing openness in economic research through the lens of behavioral and experimental economics 通过行为经济学和实验经济学的视角推进经济研究的开放性

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102454

Rima-Maria Rahal

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Go your own way? social perception, migration and trust 走自己的路？社会认知、移民和信任

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102453

Annamaria Nese , Patrizia Sbriglia , Luigi Senatore

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‘You can quit!’: Exploring the efficacy of new cigarette pack warnings through an experiment “你可以辞职了！”：通过实验探索新烟盒警语的功效

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102452

Christian Ben Lakhdar , Antoine Deplancke , Fabrice Le Lec , Sophie Massin , Anthony Piermatteo , Nicolas G. Vaillant

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The attitude–behavior gap is not one-sided: Some do more for the environment than they believe 态度和行为的差异不是单方面的：有些人对环境的贡献比他们认为的要大

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102446

Vojtěch Zíka , Petra Olšová , Michaela Jánská

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A comparison of endogenous and exogenous group formation to increase cooperation 增加合作的内生和外生群体形成的比较

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102451

Andrea Guido , Louis Putterman , Rustam Romaniuc

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Active choosing or default rules? A revealed preference approach 主动选择还是默认规则？揭示偏好方法

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102449

Yukinori Iwata

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Verification and reputational concerns: An experiment 验证和声誉问题：实验

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102435

Magnus Våge Knutsen

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Effectiveness of direct and indirect time preference elicitation methods across domains in predicting health behaviors: Evidence from Rural China 直接和间接时间偏好启发方法在跨领域预测健康行为中的有效性：来自中国农村的证据

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102448

Cong Li, Danlei Chen, Jingxian Wu, Qiqi Liu

{"title":"Effectiveness of direct and indirect time preference elicitation methods across domains in predicting health behaviors: Evidence from Rural China","authors":"Cong Li, Danlei Chen, Jingxian Wu, Qiqi Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102448","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2025.102448","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Health behaviors, which involve trade-offs between current costs and future benefits, are closely associated with individuals’ time preferences. This study investigates the effectiveness of two time preference elicitation methods—indirect (experimental) and direct (self-reported)—in predicting health behaviors using a representative sample of rural residents from Shaanxi, China. These methods were evaluated across two domains: financial and health. Our findings indicate that direct methods significantly outperformed indirect methods in predicting smoking and physical exercise behaviors in survey settings. Furthermore, time preference methods in the health domain were more predictive of health behaviors than those in the financial domain. Specifically, health-domain time preferences significantly predicted both smoking and physical exercise, while financial-domain preferences only predicted physical exercise. Based on these findings, we recommend the use of direct time preference elicitation methods from the health domain in large-scale questionnaire surveys to assess time preferences related to health behaviors in rural populations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 102448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145157440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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