Self-Confidence and Personal Motivation

By Roland Bénabou, Jean Tirole. 2002

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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Not so Above Average After All: When People Believe They are Worse than Average and its Implications for Theories of Bias in Social Comparison (2007, neutral): “Numerous inXuential psychological and economic theories have been built on the foundational assumption of self-enhancement (Baumeister, 1998; Benabou & Tirole, 2002; Brown, 1998; Daniel, Hirshleifer, & Sabrahmanyam, 1998; Dunning, 1993; Epstein, 1990; Greenwald, 1980; Steele, 1988; Taylor & Brown,…”
Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment (2014, background): “18Similarly, Benabou and Tirole (2002) consider a model where agents can manipulate their interim belief through the choice of information structure.”
Extrinsic and intrinsic motivations to innovate: tracing the motivation of ‘grassroot’ innovators in India (2011, background): “Instead, what becomes important driving force is self-confidence (Knight 1921; see also Benabou and Tirole 2002 ).”
True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence (2011, neutral): “…long prevalent—the emphasis was a different one: in recent years, various approaches were pursued to reconcile overconfidence with rational behavior (Bénabou and Tirole, 2002; Brocas and Carrillo, 2002; Compte and Postlewaite, 2004; Healy and Moore, 2007; Köszegi, 2006; Santos-Pinto and Sobel,…”
Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases) (2004, background): “On the contrary, it is precisely the past experiences that create the bias in, for example, Benabou and Tirole (2002).”
The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information (2015, neutral): “Our primary focus now is exploring the patterns of behavior that this utility function implies.”
Self-signaling and social-signaling in giving (2015, methodology): “types are drawn not increase too steeply anywhere on its domain (see also Benabou and Tirole (2006)).”
Incentives and Prosocial Behavior (2006, background): “…feeling generous or disinterested, e.g. Akerlof and Dickens (1982) or Botond Köszegi (2000)), an instrumental purpose (providing motivation to undertake and persevere in long-term tasks or social relationships, e.g. Juan D. Carrillo and Thomas Mariotti (2000) or Bénabou and Tirole (2002)), or both.”
Executive Overconfidence and the Slippery Slope to Financial Misreporting (2012, neutral): “…with recent studies that predict that humans optimally choose overconfidence despite its negative effects on certain tasks because of spillover effects to other decisions or to other time periods (e.g., Bénabou and Tirole, 2002; Compte and Postlewaite, 2004; Brunnermeier and Parker, 2005).”
Naiveté, Projection Bias, and Habit Formation in Gym Attendance (2015, neutral): “19See, e.g. Bénabou and Tirole (2002) for why subjects may begin the semester with overly optimistic beliefs.”
Confidence Enhanced Performance (2004, background): “In Michael Waldman (1994) or Benabou and Tirole (2002), the benefit stems from the fact that the agent’s criterion for decision making does not coincide with welfare maximization, while in Koszegi, the benefit stems from beliefs being directly part of the utility function.30 Waldman (1994) analyzes…”
Anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica (2008, background): “Most of us consider it important to be regarded positively by others (Brennan and Pettit, 2004; Kuran, 1995), but we also seem to prefer to have a positive view of ourselves independent of the view of others (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000; Benabou and Tirole, 2002, 2006; Santos-Pinto and Sobel 2005). As”
CEO Optimism and Incentive Compensation (2014, positive): “This is consistent with the results of Bénabou and Tirole (2002), who show how higher confidence can improve an agent's motivation to undertake projects, and with the findings of Puri and Robinson (2007), who show that optimistic people (except for extreme”
Gender Role Attitudes and Women's Labor Market Participation: Opting-Out, AIDS and the President Appeal of Housewifery (2015, background): “…paper thus investigates the relative importance of traditional gender roles versus egalitarian views with regards to women’s labor market decisions; it draws its theoretical underpinnings from the new economics of identity (Akerlof and Kranton, 2000, 2002, 2005; Bénabou and Tirole, 2002, 2006).”
Subjective Discounting in an Exchange Economy (2003, background): “Given the no-arbitrage condition (6), it then follows that the set of budget-feasible consumption choices deÞned by (4)-(5) is equivalent to the set of sequences {ct}t=0 that satisfy, for some sequence {wt+1}t=0: πtct + Et[πt+1wt+1] ≤ πtwt, (8) ct, wt+1 ≥ 0, with initial wealth w0 deÞned by (7).”