It was such a pleasure to work on this project with Yang and Sam! 🙏
The paper develops a signaling theory of self-handicapping, tests it in two novel experiments, and shows how it explains some earlier findings, too.
Tobias Gerstenberg
@yangxiang.bsky.social, @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social, and I have a fun new paper on self-handicapping:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We analyze this phenomenon in terms of rational signaling, showing how it depends on assumptions about whether observers are naive or sophisticated.
