Teraji, Shinji - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 38 (2009) 1, pp. 45-51
This article proposes an economic model of how intentional self-change occurs. People have an array of possible selves …'s motivational system. Self-verification is expected to undermine intentional self-change. Individuals may have an inert area within … which they do not attempt self-change. The inert area idea permits both optimal and sub-optimal economic outcomes within the …