Matthew L Locey,Bryan A Jones,Howard Rachlin
Matthew L Locey
Laboratory studies of choice and decision making among real monetary rewards typically use smaller real rewards than those common in real life. When laboratory rewards are large, they are almost always hypothetical. In applying laboratory r...
Coping strategies and immune neglect in affective forecasting: Direct evidence and key moderators [0.03%]
应对策略和情感预测中的免疫忽视：直接证据及关键调节因素
Michael Hoerger
Michael Hoerger
Affective forecasting skills have important implications for decision making. However, recent research suggests that immune neglect - the tendency to overlook coping strategies that reduce future distress - may lead to affective forecasting...
Michael Hoerger,Stuart W Quirk,Richard E Lucas et al.
Michael Hoerger et al.
Often to the detriment of human decision making, people are prone to an impact bias when making affective forecasts, overestimating the emotional consequences of future events. The cognitive processes underlying the impact bias, and methods...
Time preference and its relationship with age, health, and survival probability [0.03%]
时间偏好及其与年龄、健康和生存概率之间的关系
Li-Wei Chao,Helena Szrek,Nuno Sousa Pereira et al.
Li-Wei Chao et al.
Although theories from economics and evolutionary biology predict that one's age, health, and survival probability should be associated with one's subjective discount rate (SDR), few studies have empirically tested for these links. Our stud...
The value of victory: social origins of the winner's curse in common value auctions [0.03%]
赢家通吃的拍卖及其社会起源研究
Wouter van den Bos,Jian Li,Tatiana Lau et al.
Wouter van den Bos et al.
Auctions, normally considered as devices facilitating trade, also provide a way to probe mechanisms governing one's valuation of some good or action. One of the most intriguing phenomena in auction behavior is the winner's curse - the stron...
Benjamin Y Hayden,Sarah R Heilbronner,Amrita C Nair et al.
Benjamin Y Hayden et al.
Humans and other animals are idiosyncratically sensitive to risk, either preferring or avoiding options having the same value but differing in uncertainty. Many explanations for risk sensitivity rely on the non-linear shape of a hypothesize...
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow: Individual differences in future self-continuity account for saving [0.03%]
不要停止思考明天：自我连续性差异影响储蓄行为
Hal Ersner-Hershfield,M Tess Garton,Kacey Ballard et al.
Hal Ersner-Hershfield et al.
Some people find it more difficult to delay rewards than others. In three experiments, we tested a "future self-continuity" hypothesis that individual differences in the perception of one's present self as continuous with a future self woul...