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questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral economics: i) Goals serve as reference points …
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It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...
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According to construal level theory (CLT) [Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2003) Temporal construal. Physical Review, 110, 403-421], psychological representation of information depends on "psychological distance", that is, on whether the relevant information refers to the near or distant...
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