“I” make you risk-averse: The effect of first-person pronoun use in a lottery choice experiment
Does repeated exposure to the first-person pronoun “I” influence people’s attitudes toward risk? In a lottery-choice experiment, I directly manipulate the use of the pronoun “I” in two treatment conditions: “I,” in which the pronoun is included, and “No I,” in which it is omitted. I find that subjec...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-834612020-03-07T12:10:37Z “I” make you risk-averse: The effect of first-person pronoun use in a lottery choice experiment He, Tai-Sen School of Humanities and Social Sciences Attitudes toward risk Risk preferences Does repeated exposure to the first-person pronoun “I” influence people’s attitudes toward risk? In a lottery-choice experiment, I directly manipulate the use of the pronoun “I” in two treatment conditions: “I,” in which the pronoun is included, and “No I,” in which it is omitted. I find that subjects in the “I” treatment condition appear to be more risk-averse than those in the “No I” treatment, suggesting a simple and cheap but effective way for policymakers and practitioners to mount interventions. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Accepted version 2017-06-07T09:33:08Z 2019-12-06T15:23:30Z 2017-06-07T09:33:08Z 2019-12-06T15:23:30Z 2017 Journal Article He, T.-S. (2017). “I” make you risk-averse: The effect of first-person pronoun use in a lottery choice experiment. Economics Letters, 153, 39-42. 0165-1765 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83461 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42615 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.01.014 en Economics Letters © 2017 Elsevier. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Economics Letters, Elsevier. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.01.014]. 10 p. application/pdf |
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Does repeated exposure to the first-person pronoun “I” influence people’s attitudes toward risk? In a lottery-choice experiment, I directly manipulate the use of the pronoun “I” in two treatment conditions: “I,” in which the pronoun is included, and “No I,” in which it is omitted. I find that subjects in the “I” treatment condition appear to be more risk-averse than those in the “No I” treatment, suggesting a simple and cheap but effective way for policymakers and practitioners to mount interventions. |
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