Imagining the future: memory, simulation, and beliefs

<p>How do people form beliefs about novel risks, with which they have little or no experience? Motivated by survey data on beliefs about COVID we collected in 2020, we build a model based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event, different experiences compete...

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Main Authors: Bordalo, P, Burro, G, Coffman, K, Gennaioli, N, Shleifer, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2024