Research (Updated August 2024)
Publications
Hu, Beidi, Celia Gaertig, and Berkeley J. Dietvorst (forthcoming), “How Should Time Estimates Be Structured to Increase Customer Satisfaction?” Management Science. [SSRN] [ResearchBox]
Customers judge a digital platform (e.g., food delivery app, GPS app) more positively when it provides time estimates as ranges rather than point estimates.
Hu, Beidi and Joseph P. Simmons (forthcoming), “Different Methods Elicit Different Belief Distributions” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [SSRN] [ResearchBox]
Belief distribution elicitations are on the rise. We find that two functionally equivalent methods elicit different belief distributions.
Hu, Beidi and Joseph P. Simmons (2023), “Does Constructing A Belief Distribution Truly Reduce Overconfidence?” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(2): 571-89. [PDF] [SSRN] [DOI] [Supplement] [ResearchBox]
Past work says yes. Our paper finds the opposite.
Manuscript Submitted for Publication
Hu, Beidi*, Siyuan Yin*, and Alice Moon, “When Goods Were Odds: Do People Prefer Goods that Stem from Uncertainty?” (* shared authorship) Revising for 3rd round review.
The influence of uncertainty persists even after its resolution, affecting how (sure) options arising from uncertainty are evaluated.
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