A rational model of people's inferences about others' preferences based on response times

V Gates, F Callaway, MK Ho, TL Griffiths - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
There'sa difference between someone instantaneously saying “Yes!” when you ask them on
a date compared to “… yes.” Psychologists and economists have long studied how people …

Using response times to infer others' private information: An application to information cascades

C Frydman, I Krajbich - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
The standard assumption in social learning environments is that agents learn from others
through choice outcomes. We argue that in many settings, agents can also infer information …

The value of response time information in supply chain bargaining

F Chen, Y Zhao, U Thonemann - Manufacturing & Service …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: We analyzed the value of response time information in supply chain
bargaining and how the transparency of response times affects bargaining dynamics and …

Humans can infer social preferences from decision speed alone

S Bavard, E Stuchlý, A Konovalov, S Gluth - PLoS Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Humans are known to be capable of inferring hidden preferences and beliefs of their
conspecifics when observing their decisions. While observational learning based on choices …

Teaching without thinking: Negative evaluations of rote pedagogy

I Bass, C Espinoza, E Bonawitz, TD Ullman - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
When people make decisions, they act in a way that is either automatic (“rote”), or more
thoughtful (“reflective”). But do people notice when others are behaving in a rote way, and …

Understanding Expert Choices Using Decision Time

D Card, S DellaVigna, C Jiang, D Taubinsky - 2024 - nber.org
Laboratory experiments find a robust relationship between decision times and perceived
values of alternatives. This paper investigates how these findings translate to experts' …

Response times in the wild: eBay sellers take hours longer to reject high offers and accept low offers

M Cotet, I Krajbich - Available at SSRN 3804578, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Hesitation in the marketplace has the potential to betray private information. Recent results
from lab experiments have confirmed that subjects' response times reveal their strength-of …

Gender and choice over co-workers: Experimental evidence

S Aman-Rana, C Minaudier… - Available at SSRN …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We study whether choice over co-workers matters for performance in gender-diverse teams.
We carried out a lab-in-the-field experiment where students were randomly assigned co …

[PDF][PDF] Beyond choices: humans can infer social preferences from response times alone

S Bavard, E Stuchlý, A Konovalov, S Gluth - 2023 - files.osf.io
Humans are known to be capable of inferring hidden preferences and beliefs of their
conspecifics when observing their decisions. While observational learning based on choices …

The Effects of Delay in Bargaining: Evidence from eBay

J Fong, C Waisman - Available at SSRN 4387538, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Delay in negotiations is common in many settings, but the effects of delay have rarely been
studied empirically in the field. We measure the causal effect of delay using data from …