2 papers
econ.GN2026
The friendship paradox: Causal evidence of its behavioral consequences
Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Matthew O. Jackson +2
We provide a first causal analysis of the behavioral consequences of the friendship paradox-the fact that people's friends in a network have more connections than average. We find…
econ.GN2025
On Prior Confidence and Belief Updating
Kenneth Chan, Gary Charness, Chetan Dave +1
We experimentally investigate how confidence over multiple priors affects belief updating. Theory predicts that the average Bayesian posterior is unaffected by confidence over mult…