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econ.GN2021
The Supply of Motivated Beliefs
Michael Thaler
When people choose what messages to send to others, they often consider how others will interpret the messages. A sender may expect a receiver to engage in motivated reasoning, lea…
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Overinference from Weak Signals and Underinference from Strong Signals
Ned Augenblick, Eben Lazarus, Michael Thaler
When people receive new information, sometimes they revise their beliefs too much, and sometimes too little. In this paper, we show that a key driver of whether people overinfer or…