Playing with words: Do people exploit loaded language to affect others’ decisions for their own benefit?

We report on three pre-registered studies testing whether people in the position of describing a decision problem to decision-makers exploit this opportunity for their benefit, by choosing descriptions that may be potentially beneficial for themselves. In Study 1, recipients of an extreme dictator g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Valerio Capraro, Andrea Vanzo, Antonio Cabrales
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-01-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/21/210607/jdm210607.pdf