Jason Dana
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Dana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Dana |
| SIGNATURE | DANA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3558-5208 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Better Accuracy for Better Science . . . Through Random Conclusions
Conducting research with human subjects can be difficult because of limited sample sizes and small empirical effects. We demonstrate that this problem can yield patterns of results that are practically indistinguishable from flipping a coin to determine the direction of treatment effects. We use this idea of random conclusions to establish a baseline for interpreting effect-size estimates, in turn producing more stringent thresholds for hypothesi…
Taste-Based Gender Favouritism in High-Stake Decisions: Evidence from The Price is Right
Gender discrimination is present across various fields, but identifying the underlying mechanism is challenging. We demonstrate own-gender favouritism in a field setting that allows for clean identification of tastes versus beliefs: the One Bid game on the TV show The Price Is Right. Players must guess an item’s value without exceeding it, leaving the last bidder with a dominant ‘cutoff’ strategy of overbidding another player by ${\$}$1. We show …
Attributional ambiguity reduces charitable giving by relaxing social norms
A growing literature demonstrates reluctant giving: Many people who voluntarily give to charity no longer do so when they have an excuse not to give. The mechanisms of reluctance, however, remain unclear. Consistent with this literature, we found that injecting attributional ambiguity into a real charitable decision significantly reduces donations. Participants in our studies (N = 2147) faced a binary choice between options for distributing money…
The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline
This crowdsourced project introduces a collaborative approach to improving the reproducibility of scientific research, in which findings are replicated in qualified independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published. Our goal is to establish a non-adversarial replication process with highly informative final results. To illustrate the Pre-Publication Independent Replication (PPIR) approach, 25 research groups conducted replica…
Justified ethicality: Observing desired counterfactuals modifies ethical perceptions and behavior
Leveling the playing field: Dishonesty in the face of threat
Exploiting moral wiggle room: Experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness
What you don’t know won’t hurt me: Costly (but quiet) exit in dictator games
In defense of clinical judgment … and mechanical prediction
Despite over 50 years of one‐sided research favoring formal prediction rules over human judgment, the “clinical‐statistical controversy,” as it has come to be known, remains something of a hot‐button issue. Surveying the objections to the formal approach, it seems the strongest point of disagreement is that clinical expertise can be replaced by statistics. We review and expand upon an unfortunately obscured part of Meehl's book to try to reconcil…
The framing effect and risky decisions: Examining cognitive functions with fMRI
The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline
This crowdsourced project introduces a collaborative approach to improving the reproducibility of scientific research, in which findings are replicated in qualified independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published. Our goal is to establish a non-adversarial replication process with highly informative final results. To illustrate the Pre-Publication Independent Replication (PPIR) approach, 25 research groups conducted replica…
The framing effect and risky decisions: Examining cognitive functions with fMRI
Attributional ambiguity reduces charitable giving by relaxing social norms
A growing literature demonstrates reluctant giving: Many people who voluntarily give to charity no longer do so when they have an excuse not to give. The mechanisms of reluctance, however, remain unclear. Consistent with this literature, we found that injecting attributional ambiguity into a real charitable decision significantly reduces donations. Participants in our studies (N = 2147) faced a binary choice between options for distributing money…
Leveling the playing field: Dishonesty in the face of threat
The framing effect and risky decisions: Examining cognitive functions with fMRI
What you don’t know won’t hurt me: Costly (but quiet) exit in dictator games
In defense of clinical judgment … and mechanical prediction
Despite over 50 years of one‐sided research favoring formal prediction rules over human judgment, the “clinical‐statistical controversy,” as it has come to be known, remains something of a hot‐button issue. Surveying the objections to the formal approach, it seems the strongest point of disagreement is that clinical expertise can be replaced by statistics. We review and expand upon an unfortunately obscured part of Meehl's book to try to reconcil…
Exploiting moral wiggle room: Experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness
Justified ethicality: Observing desired counterfactuals modifies ethical perceptions and behavior
Leveling the playing field: Dishonesty in the face of threat
The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline
This crowdsourced project introduces a collaborative approach to improving the reproducibility of scientific research, in which findings are replicated in qualified independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published. Our goal is to establish a non-adversarial replication process with highly informative final results. To illustrate the Pre-Publication Independent Replication (PPIR) approach, 25 research groups conducted replica…
Taste-Based Gender Favouritism in High-Stake Decisions: Evidence from The Price is Right
Gender discrimination is present across various fields, but identifying the underlying mechanism is challenging. We demonstrate own-gender favouritism in a field setting that allows for clean identification of tastes versus beliefs: the One Bid game on the TV show The Price Is Right. Players must guess an item’s value without exceeding it, leaving the last bidder with a dominant ‘cutoff’ strategy of overbidding another player by ${\$}$1. We show …
Attributional ambiguity reduces charitable giving by relaxing social norms
A growing literature demonstrates reluctant giving: Many people who voluntarily give to charity no longer do so when they have an excuse not to give. The mechanisms of reluctance, however, remain unclear. Consistent with this literature, we found that injecting attributional ambiguity into a real charitable decision significantly reduces donations. Participants in our studies (N = 2147) faced a binary choice between options for distributing money…
Better Accuracy for Better Science . . . Through Random Conclusions
Conducting research with human subjects can be difficult because of limited sample sizes and small empirical effects. We demonstrate that this problem can yield patterns of results that are practically indistinguishable from flipping a coin to determine the direction of treatment effects. We use this idea of random conclusions to establish a baseline for interpreting effect-size estimates, in turn producing more stringent thresholds for hypothesi…
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (6 works) · Microeconomics (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works)