eprintid: 19170 rev_number: 25 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/01/91/70 datestamp: 2015-12-15 09:13:26 lastmod: 2023-07-18 08:44:52 status_changed: 2016-04-19 13:27:05 type: article succeeds: 15456 metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Dessi, Roberta creators_name: Gallo, Edoardo creators_name: Goyal, Sanjeev creators_idrefppn: 172136431 creators_idrefppn: 12689549X creators_affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics (IDEI and GREMAQ), and CEPR creators_affiliation: Faculty of Economics and Queensâ�� College, University of Cambridge creators_affiliation: Faculty of Economics and Christ's College, University of Cambridge title: Network Cognition ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: We study individual ability to memorize and recall information about friendship networks using a combination of experiments and survey-based data. In the experiment subjects are shown a network, in which their location is exogenously assigned, and they are then asked questions about the network after it disappears. We find that subjects exhibit three main cognitive biases: (i) they underestimate the mean degree compared to the actual network; (ii) they overestimate the number of rare degrees; (iii) they underestimate the number of frequent degrees. We then analyze survey data from two ‘real’ friendship networks from a Silicon Valley firm and from a University Research Center. We find, somewhat remarkably, that individuals in these real networks also exhibit these biases. date: 2016-03 date_type: published publisher: Elsevier official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/29977 faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: TRUE view_date_year: 2016 full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization volume: vol.163 pagerange: 78-96 refereed: TRUE issn: 0167-2681 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:29977 harvester_local_overwrite: oai_set harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: issn harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: site harvester_local_overwrite: publisher harvester_local_overwrite: creators_affiliation harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn oai_lastmod: 2023-05-26T08:27:54Z oai_set: tse oai_set: ut1c site: ut1 citation: Dessi, Roberta , Gallo, Edoardo and Goyal, Sanjeev (2016) Network Cognition. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol.163. pp. 78-96. document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/19170/1/cognition31.pdf