Present Bias and Everyday Self‐Control Failures: A Day Reconstruction Study

Everyday life is full of self‐control problems. The economist's favorite explanation for self‐control problems is present bias. This paper tests whether experimentally elicited present bias predicts self‐control problems in everyday life. We measure present bias by using a standard incentivized...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of behavioral decision making 2017-12, Vol.30 (5), p.1157-1167
Hauptverfasser:	Delaney, Liam, Lades, Leonhard K.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bias Cost analysis day reconstruction method Decision making Discounting Economic models Economists Everyday life Life control present bias Procrastination Self control subjective preferences Temptation time preferences
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