{"title":"Emotional Differences between Isomorphic Auctions","authors":"A. Breaban, Cary A. Deck, Erik Johnson","doi":"10.1080/15427560.2022.2081972","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract First price and Dutch auctions are theoretically isomorphic, but previous experiments report that the institutions are not behaviorally isomorphic. This article uses facial analysis of video recordings of laboratory experiments to investigate whether these auctions invoke different emotional responses from bidders. The results indicate that bidders are angrier during the Dutch auction and that winners exhibit more contempt after the first price auction. Overall, subjects in both auctions appear to be mostly bored and depressed, but there is evidence that bidders exhibit more positive emotions as prices fall in the Dutch auction.","PeriodicalId":47016,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral Finance","volume":"46 1","pages":"427 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Behavioral Finance","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15427560.2022.2081972","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract First price and Dutch auctions are theoretically isomorphic, but previous experiments report that the institutions are not behaviorally isomorphic. This article uses facial analysis of video recordings of laboratory experiments to investigate whether these auctions invoke different emotional responses from bidders. The results indicate that bidders are angrier during the Dutch auction and that winners exhibit more contempt after the first price auction. Overall, subjects in both auctions appear to be mostly bored and depressed, but there is evidence that bidders exhibit more positive emotions as prices fall in the Dutch auction.
期刊介绍:
In Journal of Behavioral Finance , leaders in many fields are brought together to address the implications of current work on individual and group emotion, cognition, and action for the behavior of investment markets. They include specialists in personality, social, and clinical psychology; psychiatry; organizational behavior; accounting; marketing; sociology; anthropology; behavioral economics; finance; and the multidisciplinary study of judgment and decision making. The journal will foster debate among groups who have keen insights into the behavioral patterns of markets but have not historically published in the more traditional financial and economic journals. Further, it will stimulate new interdisciplinary research and theory that will build a body of knowledge about the psychological influences on investment market fluctuations. The most obvious benefit will be a new understanding of investment markets that can greatly improve investment decision making. Another benefit will be the opportunity for behavioral scientists to expand the scope of their studies via the use of the enormous databases that document behavior in investment markets.