Intertemporal choice reflects value comparison rather than self-control: insights from confidence judgements. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Intertemporal decision-making has long been assumed to measure self-control, with prominent theories treating choices of smaller, sooner rewards as failed attempts to override immediate temptation. If this view is correct, people should be more confident
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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]
BMC PsychologyBackground 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 Choice and Consumption Mobility [PDF]
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005 The theory of intertemporal consumption choice makes sharp predictions about the evolution of the entire distribution of household consumption, not just about its conditional mean.
Luigi Pistaferri, Tullio Jappelli
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The effect of psychological distance on intertemporal choice of the reward processing: an eye-tracking investigation [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study employed eye-tracking technology to investigate how varying dimensions of psychological distance–temporal, probability, and social–affect intertemporal choice.
Yujie Li, Xiaoyi Chu
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Intertemporal discrete choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 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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Handbook of Behavioral Economics - Foundations and Applications 2, 2018 Intertemporal tradeoffs play a key role in many personal decisions and policy questions. We describe models of intertemporal choice, identify empirical regularities in choice, and pose new questions for research.
K. Ericson, David Laibson
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Concentration Bias in Intertemporal Choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Many intertemporal trade-offs are unbalanced: while the advantages of options are concentrated in a few periods, the disadvantages are dispersed over numerous periods.
Markus Dertwinkel‐Kalt +4 more
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The delay-reward heuristic: What do people expect in intertemporal choice tasks? [PDF]
Judgm Decis Mak, 2020 Recent research has shown that risk and reward are positively correlated in many environments, and that people have internalized this association as a “risk-reward heuristic”: when making choices based on incomplete information, people infer ...
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Intact value-based decision-making during intertemporal choice in women with remitted anorexia nervosa? An fMRI study [PDF]
J Psychiatry Neurosci, 2020 Background Extreme restrictive food choice in anorexia nervosa is thought to reflect excessive self-control and/or abnormal reward sensitivity. Studies using intertemporal choice paradigms have suggested an increased capacity to delay reward in anorexia ...
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The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice. [PDF]
J Exp Soc Psychol, 2022 Wu X, Li J, Li Y.
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