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The Effect of Group Counseling based on Choice Theory on Homesickness and Emotion of Thought [PDF]
The present study compared the effectiveness of group counseling based on choice theory on homesickness and emotion of thought. Research design was quasi-experimental administering a pretest-posttest on an experimental and a control group. The population
Alireza Nikmorad +2 more
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A Criticism of Doyle's survey of time preference: A correction regarding the CRDI and CADI families [PDF]
Doyle's (2013) theoretical survey of discount functions criticizes two parametric families abbreviated as CRDI and CADI families. We show that Doyle's criticisms are based on a mathematical mistake and are incorrect.
Han Bleichrodt +3 more
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Adolescent impatience decreases with increased frontostriatal connectivity [PDF]
SignificanceCompared with children and adults, teens and young adults often exhibit greater impulsivity and corresponding increases in emergency room visits, accidents from drug or alcohol use, and increased mortality risk. However, it remains poorly understood how increased impulsivity during adolescence may be explained in terms of brain and ...
van den Bos, Wouter +3 more
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An Extension of the Concept of Derivative: Its Application to Intertemporal Choice
The framework of this paper is the concept of derivative from the point of view of abstract algebra and differential calculus. The objective of this paper is to introduce a novel concept of derivative which arises in certain economic problems ...
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +1 more
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The framework of this paper is intertemporal choice and, more specifically, the so-called delay effect. Traditionally, this anomaly, also known as decreasing impatience, has been revealed when individuals reverse their preferences over monetary or non ...
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +1 more
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Estimating customer impatience in a service system with unobserved balking [PDF]
This paper studies a service system in which arriving customers are provided with information about the delay they will experience. Based on this information they decide to wait for service or to leave the system.
Inoue, Yoshiaki +2 more
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A Solvable Time-Inconsistent Principal-Agent Problem
We consider the dynamic contract model with time inconsistency preference of principal-agent problem to study the influence of the time inconsistency preference on the optimal effort and the optimal reward mechanism.
Chao Li, Zhijian Qiu
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Observed and Normative Discount Functions in Addiction and other Diseases
The aim of this paper is to find a suitable discount function able to describe the progression of a certain addiction or disease under treatment as a discounting process.
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +2 more
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Survey of time preference, delay discounting models [PDF]
The paper surveys over twenty models of delay discounting (also known as temporal discounting, time preference, time discounting), that psychologists and economists have put forward to explain the way people actually trade off time and money.
John R. Doyle
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Aggregating time preferences with decreasing impatience
It is well-known that for a group of time-consistent decision makers their collective time preferences may become time-inconsistent. Jackson and Yariv (2014) demonstrated that the result of aggregation of exponential discount functions always exhibits present bias.
Anchugina, Nina +2 more
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