• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Talking with an Extremist
  • Contributor: Catonini, Emiliano [VerfasserIn]; Mayskaya, Tatiana [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, 2022
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (30 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4193429
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  • Keywords: disagreement ; almost common knowledge ; polarization ; misspecification ; bounded rationality ; almost common belief
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 25, 2022 erstellt
  • Description: Two agents exchange their guesses about a state of the world infinitely many times. A small departure from common knowledge of rationality can have a severe impact on the beliefs and behavior of an extremist: while initial periods of disagreement produce a temporary convergence of beliefs, perpetual disagreement induces reversion to the prior. Paradoxically, a late change of opinion by the counterpart induces the extremist to switch sides because the change reassures him that the counterpart is intellectually capable and honest
  • Access State: Open Access