时间：2015年12月25日（周五）14：00－15：30 pm

地点：北大国发院/中国经济研究中心512教室

主持人：余淼杰

主讲人：Chew Soo Hong（National University of Singapore）

题目：Motivated False Memory

摘要：People often forget and sometimes fantasize. This paper reports an experiment on memory errors and their relation to preferential traits including present bias and attitude towards risk and ambiguity. We find systematic incidence of memory biases in forgetting negative events and exhibiting false memory in favor of positive events. Intriguingly, positive delusion and positive confabulation are significantly related to the degree of present bias, but this is not the case for positive amnesia. In an intra-person, multiple-self model, false memory, rather than amnesia, serves to enhance confidence for one's future selves to account for our experimental findings. Our approach admits a collectivist reinterpretation giving rise to a fresh take on how institutional fabrication, including collective amnesia and collective false memories, can enhance confidence at the societal level, thereby motivating people to invest in the collective good from the perspective of the older generations.

主讲人简介：Chew Soo Hong is professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Chew received his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of British Columbia and has previously taught at the University of California, Irvine, Johns Hopkins University and University of Arizona. He is among the pioneers in axiomatic non-expected utility models and is a fellow of the Econometric Society which awarded him the Leonard J. Savage thesis prize. Chew has directed HKUST’s center for Experimental Business Research, inaugurated by Vernon Smith in 1998, and is co-director of NUS’ lab for Behavioral x Biological Economics and the Social Sciences which aims to bring together genomics, neuroscience, decision theory, and behavioral and experimental economics to seek a deeper understanding of decision making at the neural and molecular levels. Chew has published in well regarded journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, and Review of Economic Studies as well as more biology oriented ones including PNAS, PRSB, Neuron, and PLoS ONE.

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