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Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition (2017)
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Gaechter, S., Huang, L., & Sefton, M. (2018). Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition. Economic Inquiry, 56(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12498

We present an experiment to investigate the source of disappointment aversion in a sequential real-effort competition. Specifically, we study the contribution of social comparison effects to the disappointment aversion previously identified in a two-... Read More about Disappointment aversion and social comparisons in a real-effort competition.