Forum
What is DR@W Forum?
DR@W Forum is an interdisciplinary discussion series which focuses on theoretical and empirical research about decision making.
The usual structure of the forum is a 30 - 45 minute introduction of the topic/working paper, with ample additional time for discussion.
The audience prefers discussing work-in-progress topics as opposed to finished papers. We meet on Thursdays between 2:30 and 3:45pm during term time, with streaming via Zoom. Contact John Taylor (John.Taylor[at]wbs.ac.uk) if you would like to suggest a speaker for a future event. Notifications of upcoming DR@W Forum events along with other decision research related activities can be obtained by registering with the moderated Behaviour Spotlight email listLink opens in a new window.
Note that several talks during the 2024/25 academic year are being hosted and organised by the Economics department. This is indicated in the calendar entries. These talks will all take place in the Social Studies building. If you require further details regarding these sessions, please contact Matthew Ridley (Matthew.Ridley[at]Warwick.ac.uk) in the Economics department.
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.