Interacting Mental Models

Abstract

In Progress. We experimentally study how people revise their perceived causal models in settings where they interact with others. We consider a setting where individuals first form mental models in isolation based on observational data. We then examine when and how exposure to others’ predictions—cast by people who may have extracted differing mental models—influences the model-updating process.

Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch
Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch
Assistant Professor of Economics