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We investigate the role that self-control problems — modeled as time-inconsistent, present-biased preferences —and a person’s awareness of those problems might play in leading people to develop and maintain harmful addictions. Present-biased preferences create a tendency to...
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level of naivete; with learning, if the learning pace is fast enough, procrastination until the deadline does not occur. …
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with probabilities that are proportional to measures of regret for not having used other strategies (these measures are … of play converge to the set of correlated equilibria of the game. To compute these regret measures, a player needs to …
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The paper proposes a framework to extend regret theory to dynamic contexts. The key idea is to conceive of a dynamic … decision problem with regret as an intra-personal game in which the agent forms conjectures about the behaviour of the various … across either time or contingencies. In the first case, regret might lead to excess conservatism or a tendency to make up for …
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Regret has been studied in several fields: Economics, Psychology and Marketing. On the one hand, these studies have … contributed to the conceptualisation and definition of regret, and on the other hand, they have provided useful information on the … antecedents and consequences of the emotional experience of regret. In the present paper, we intend to summarize the literature on …
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ambiguity aversion. This characterization extends to regret-based models as well. As an application of our general result, we …
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The thesis consists of an introductory part and four self-contained papers. Paper [I] theoretically analyzes how the level and uncertainty of future prospects affect incentives to abstain from sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. The results suggest that, for individuals with limited...
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ambiguity aversion. This characterization extends to regret-based models as well. As an appli- cation of our general result, we …
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tasting. We explicitly test whether consumer regret and fear of missing out on alternative options or consumer search costs … through sensory descriptions does not affect tasting behavior. This provides support for the anticipated regret and fear of …
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Hyperbolic discounting with naiveté is widely believed to provide a better explanation than exponential discounting of …
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