This paper studies corrective strategies for the illusion of delayed incentives (Soman, 1998), the phenomena that money-for-effort transactions that are unattractive in the present appear attractive when they are in the future. This illusion occurs because future effort is discounted more...

In this paper we suggest that duration judgments of a given episode made after a time delay arise from a process that is fundamentally different from judgments made online or immediately after the episode. We propose a memory-based process called the "snapshot model." In our model, the human...