We report on two novel choice experiments with real goods where subjects in one treatment are forced to choose, as is … the norm in economic experiments, while in the other they are not but can instead incur a small cost to defer choice … subjects in the nonforced‐choice treatment are generally more consistent. We also find that the combined deferral and active‐choice …

We introduce a dynamic model of emotional behavior regulation that can generalize to a wide range of decision dilemmas …. Dilemmas are characterized by availability of mutually exclusive goals that a decision maker is dually motivated to pursue. In … observed between so-called “preferences” revealed in repeated decision dilemmas (e.g., by choosing A over B at time 1, then …