In this paper I extend the well known result that a hyperbolically discounting agent postpones costs into the future …

view. It is argued that although a terrorist gives up future utility from consumption by committing a suicide attack, this … loss can be overcompensated by the utility he derives from the attack. Some individual cases of suicide bombers are … psychological concepts of cognitive dissonance and terror management theory into our economic analysis, we demonstrate why …

-dimensional decision outcomes, economic theory assumes a uni-dimensional utility measure. This paper reviews evidence from behavioral and … makers' difficulties can be explained once the motivational aspects of utility (wanting) are disentangled from the …

In economic theory, utility depends on past, present and future outcomes. The experiment described in this paper … suggests that utility also depends on people's attitudes, and that it can easily be manipulated through these attitudes. The … results imply, first, that purely outcome-based models of individual utility may be incomplete. Second, that reference …

The concept of utility is often used in ambiguous ways in economics, from having substantive psychological connotations … conceive of utility. It turns out that empirical evidence does not favor a view of multidimensional utility. This does not … eliminate the possibility to make a normative argument supporting a multidimensional notion of utility. …