DR@W
DR@W
Decision Research at Warwick (DR@W) is an interdisciplinary initiative which focuses on behavioural and experimental research of decision making.
Formed in January 2010, DR@W brings together researchers and students from Economics, Psychology, Statistics, Warwick Mathematics Institute, Warwick Manufacturing Group and Warwick Business School that are interested in current developments in the area of experimental and behavioural research.
The Department of Economics have created and manage a large computer laboratory for use with experiments.
Visit the Decision Research at Warwick website for further details.
DR@W Forum - Kai Barron (WZB)
This paper studies how parents influence the ego-relevant information children receive about themselves and how this shapes children’s beliefs and behavior. Using a field experiment with 7th-grade Norwegian students and their parents, we show that parents provide their children with messages that are systematically more positive than their private beliefs. Children incorporate these positively biased messages into their self-assessments. The gap between parents’ private beliefs and their communicated messages is larger when the message is received before the child works on a task, suggesting that the desire to motivate the child is one mechanism behind the positive message bias. The study contributes to understanding how the inter-personal transmission of self-relevant information, rather than solely intra-personal cognitive biases, shapes overconfidence.