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Kevin Bauer

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Machine Predictions and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

2021

We show that disclosing machine predictions to affected parties can trigger self-fulfilling prophecies. In an investment game, we experimentally vary investors’ and recipients’ access to a machine prediction about recipients’ likelihood to pay back an investment. Recipients who privately learn about an incorrect machine prediction alter their behavior in the direction of the prediction. Furthermore, when recipients learn that an investor has disregarded a machine prediction of no-repayment, this further lowers the repayment amount. We interpret these findings as evidence that transparency regarding machine predictions can alter recipients’ beliefs about what kind of person they are and what…

MicroeconomicsTransparency (market)Computer scienceHuman machine interactionAccountabilitySelf-fulfilling prophecyInvestment (macroeconomics)Consumer behaviourSSRN Electronic Journal
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The role of natural science collections in the biomonitoring of environmental contaminants in apex predators in support of the EU’s zero pollution am…

2022

Movalli, Paola et al.

WIMEKSettore BIO/05 - ZoologiaEU chemicals regulationMarine mammalToxicologyPollutionZero pollutionEcology and EnvironmentOtterApex predatorRaptorCHEMICALSChemistryBiomonitoringEXPOSUREEU chemicals regulation Zero pollution Biomonitoring Chemicals of emerging concern Apex predator Raptor Marine mammal OtterBiologyBiomonitoring ; Marine mammal ; EU chemicals regulation ; Raptor ; Apex predator ; Chemicals of emerging concern ; Zero pollution ; OtterToxicologieVLAGChemicals of emerging concern
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