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Temporal discounting and number representation

Alonso, Santiago - In: The journal of behavioral finance : a publication of … 14 (2013) 3, pp. 240-251

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Why do we procrastinate? : present bias and optimism

Breig, Zachary; Gibson, Matthew; Shrader, Jeffrey - 2020

Research has shown that procrastination has signicant adverse effects on individuals, including lower savings and poorer health. Procrastination is typically modeled as resulting from present bias. In this paper we study an alternative: excessively optimistic beliefs about future demands on an...

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Time preferences and criminal behavior

Åkerlund, David; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; … - 2014

One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a deterrent depends on how much individuals discount future events when balancing the immediate utility...

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The effect of uncertainty on negative discounting

Palenik, Marcin - In: International journal of management and economics 57 (2021) 4, pp. 287-298

show that the assumption of positive discounting is not always true. The presented experimental study shows how a decrease … in probability increases the chances of negative discounting. According to the results, the expected large, uncertain … in the frequency of negative discounting due to increased uncertainty. The results of the study broaden the existing …

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Time matters less when outcomes differ : unimodal vs. cross-modal comparisons in intertemporal choice

Cubitt, Robin P.; McDonald, Rebecca; Read, Daniel - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 64 (2018) 2, pp. 873-887

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Multiple selves in intertemporal choice

Jamison, Julian; Wegener, Jon - 2009

We propose that individuals consider future versions of themselves to truly be separate persons, not simply as a convenient modeling device but in terms of actual brain systems and decision]making processes. Intertemporal choices are thus quite literally strategic interactions between multiple...

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