Rationally inattentive intertemporal choice [PDF]
People are disproportionately more patient when evaluating larger rewards. Here, the authors show how this magnitude effect may reflect an adaptive response to uncertainty in mental representations of future value.
Samuel J. Gershman, Rahul Bhui
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Individual Differences in Intertemporal Choice [PDF]
Intertemporal choice involves deciding between smaller, sooner and larger, later rewards. People tend to prefer smaller rewards that are available earlier to larger rewards available later, a phenomenon referred to as temporal or delay discounting ...
Kristof Keidel +7 more
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The Impact of Consumers’ Choice Deferral Behavior on Their Intertemporal Choice Preference [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of consumers’ choice deferral behavior on their intertemporal choice preference. The empirical study shows that consumers’ choice deferral behavior can significantly affect their intertemporal ...
He-Lin Wei +6 more
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New paradoxes in intertemporal choice [PDF]
Similar to research on risky choice, the traditional analysis of intertemporal choice takes the view that an individual behaves so as to maximize the discounted sum of all future utilities.
Li-Lin Rao, Shu Li
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The effect of incentives on intertemporal choice: Choice, confidence, and eye movements [PDF]
Despite various studies examining intertemporal choice with hypothetical rewards due to problematic real reward delivery, there remains no substantial evidence on the effect of the incentives on the decision confidence and cognitive process in ...
Xing-Lan Yang +3 more
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Intertemporal choice as discounted value accumulation. [PDF]
Two separate cognitive processes are involved in choosing between rewards available at different points in time. The first is temporal discounting, which consists of combining information about the size and delay of prospective rewards to represent ...
Christian A Rodriguez +2 more
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Intertemporal Choice and Consumption Mobility [PDF]
We test the validity of three models of intertemporal consumption choice(the permanent income hypothesis, the myopic model, and the consumption insurance model) by means of mobility indexes for the underlying consumption distribution.
Luigi Pistaferri, Tullio Jappelli
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The Effect of Social Distance on Intertemporal Choice of Reward Processing: An Event-Related Potentials Study [PDF]
Social factors can affect the processing of intertemporal choice, but the influence of social distance on the rewarding process of intertemporal choice is unclear.
Shulin Tang +6 more
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The influence of red and blue font color on intertemporal choice: the mediating roles of time perception and dimensional difference comparison [PDF]
Background Intertemporal choices are the process by which people make choices about losses or gains at different points in time (near or far). To explore the relationship between font color and intertemporal choice and to examine the serial mediation of ...
Kai Zhang, Hui Jiang, Xiaowei Geng
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Intertemporal discrete choice [PDF]
The discounted logit is widely used to estimate time preferences using data from field and laboratory experiments. Despite its popularity, it exhibits the "problem of the scale": choice probabilities depend on the scale of the value function.
Pennesi, Daniele
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