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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"intertemporal choice"”.
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Control of intertemporal choice by dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons
… is often advantageous [2]. Appropriate choice about future rewards is critical for survival. The dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons have been long implicated in the control of temporal discounting of reward [3] [4], but it is not clear whether their activities in fact direct the decision …
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Individuals With Amnesia are not Stuck in Time: Evidence From Risky Decision-Making, Intertemporal Choice, and Scaffolded Narratives
… tasks (a risky decision-making task and an intertemporal choice task) to examine whether amnesic cases judgment and decision-making reflects proneness to risky choices or steep disregard for the future. In Experiment 3, I examine the flexibility of amnesics intertemporal choice by testing …
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A Closer Look at Classical Measurement, an Algorithm for Deliberation in Rodents, and a Conjecture on Intertemporal Choice
… for a class of decision problems involving intertemporal choice under uncertainty—a class of problems of great importance to artificial intelligence, brain sciences, economics, and, I argue, to physics too.
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Decomposing Time Effect on Valuation and Choice
<p>Intertemporal choice, defined as tradeoffs consumers make between the costs of waiting and the benefits of larger reward size, is an important and ubiquitous effect in marketing. Individuals’ perception of time has been shown to impact intertemporal choice. Event markers are demarcations that …
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Temporal Discounting of Losses
… and Paper 5 offers an integrative approach to intertemporal choice, with recommendations for environmental policy. Taken together, these investigations suggest that discounting of losses is both quantitatively and qualitatively different from discounting of gains. Across domains and methods …
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Regulation of choice behavior : an experiment investigating the hypothesis that people bundle sequences of expected rewards
… enables decision makers to self-regulate their choice behavior. Most empirical work on intertemporal choice has focused on analyzing impulsive choice. Less effort has been dedicated to explanations of how individuals manage to overcome self-defeating behavior. This thesis evaluates the theory of …
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Is It Time? Examining the Effects of Episodic Imagining on Reward Discounting
… about the future, as documented on tests of intertemporal choice where personal cueing greatly reduces future reward discounting. Despite this robust finding, it is unclear whether this modulatory effect is due to the induction of episodic imagining. If so, the effect should not generalize to …
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Roles of orbitofrontal and insular cortices in processing reward variables
… variables are processed in our brain. Although choices of both humans and animals are more strongly influenced by immediate than delayed rewards, methodological limitations have made it difficult to estimate the precise form of temporal discounting in animals. In the present study, we sought to …
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Timing and expectations in the theory of taxation
This dissertation is a study of individual intertemporal choice, and how alternative tax institutions and taxpayer expectations about the employment of tax institutions can affect those choices. This examination differs from standard tax analysis by explicitly incorporating into the analysis …
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Temporal Discounting: A comparison of adjusting-amount and adjusting-delay procedures
… a fully randomized version of the initial choice task. The results confirmed that, regardless of the choice task used, subjective value decreased as the delay to that outcome increased. In addition, it was found that under the adjusting-delay and the adjusting-delayed-amount tasks, but not …
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Location privacy exchange behavior: development and testing of two proposed models
… based on privacy calculus, prospect theory and Intertemporal choice theory is proposed and tested. In Essay Three, a behavior prediction model based on social exchange theory and the commitment-trust theory of relationship marketing is proposed and tested. Both of the proposed models were tested …
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Nudging, transparency and rationality: An experimental investigation
… paternalistic interventions in the context of intertemporal choice”, I conduct an experiment to determine to what degree a traditional libertarian paternalist (LP) intervention, popularly known as a nudge, can outperform an autonomy-enhancing paternalist intervention (AEP). I introduce the term …
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A study on attitudes towards postgraduate education in the UK
… comparison is made in two scenarios considering intertemporal choice with exponential discounting as well as hyperbolic discounting. Thus, a model characterising optimal stopping times for both individuals is derived. This will allow for more government consideration of the social and economic …
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Drift Diffusion Analyses Of Preferential Choice
Preferential choices are often products of stochastic accumulation of noisy preferences in favor of different options. In a collection of three essays, we use sequential sampling models to formally describe preference accumulation processes underlying various choice problems. The models we propose …
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The Culture of Green: The Role of Cultural Worldviews, Psychological Connectedness, Time Discounting, and Social Norms in Environmental Decisions
… differences in perceptions of time looking at intertemporal decisions, social norms, policy preferences, and behaviors in the environmental domain. Looking closely at the environmental domain allows for a unique opportunity to examine whether or not cultural worldviews or social norms are …
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Neuronale Korrelate von Delay Discounting
… Delay Discouting ist mithilfe von sogenannten Intertemporal Choice Tasks bereits herausgefunden worden, dass die Entscheidung für eine sofortige Belohnung stärkere neuronale Aktivierung in belohnungsspezifischen Gehirnregionen evoziert als die Entscheidung für eine verzögerte Belohnung. …
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The influence and manipulation of resting-state brain networks in alcohol use disorder
… faculties were challenged with difficult choices, adolescents made decisions inconsistent with their predicted preference, complemented by increased brain activity in the central executive network and salience network. Using these results and the hypothesis that the default mode network …
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Future thinking and medicine adherence: a study of typically developing and chronically ill adolescents
… future-oriented decision making during an intertemporal choice task.<br/>Chapter 4 investigates the potential link between future thinking and treatment adherence in adolescents with chronic illness and reveals that young people who are more future-oriented in their decision making are more …
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TO WAIT OR TO LOSE? FRAMING ATTENUATES DELAY DISCOUNTING ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
… if they are logically equivalent-can influence choice. Framing a choice as a loss often leads to avoidance that option, i.e. to loss aversion. Delay discounting and susceptibility to loss framing have thus far only been studied in isolation, yet in day to day life we regularly must consider both …