Asymmetric Discounting in Intertemporal Choice: A Query Theory Account

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Weber, E. U., Johnson, E. J., Milch, K. F., CHANG, Hannah H., Brodscholl, J. C., Goldstein, D. G.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• الموضوعات: Human behavior; mental discipline; delayed consumption; Business; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/1315; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/2314/viewcontent/AsymmetricDiscounting_av.pdf

People are impatient and discount future rewards more when they are asked to delay consumption than when they are offered the chance to accelerate consumption. The three experiments reported here provide a process-level account for this asymmetry, with implications for designing decision environment...