Essays about: "temporal discounting"

Found 5 essays containing the words temporal discounting.

  1. 1. The Art of Measurement - Exogenous Activation of Self-Control with Simple Verbal Sentences in Intertemporal Choice

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Henri Lindroos; [2015-06-24]
    Keywords : Normative economics; behavioral economics; experimental economics; picoeconomics self-control; financial delay discounting; intertemporal choice; delay of gratification; implementaion intentions; temporal delay; exogenous activation of self-control; inversion of thought; general semantics; the art of measurement;

    Abstract : Recent neurological studies have found first causal evidence for a neural self-control mechanism in decision-making in intertemporal choice (e.g. Hare et al. 2009, 2011 & 2014, Figner et al. READ MORE

  3. 2. Temporal Discounting of Different Commodities in Airline Customer Reward Programs

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

    Author : Alana Knapman; Jon Tronde; [2012]
    Keywords : Customer reward programs; customer loyalty; temporal discounting;

    Abstract : Customer reward programs are commonly used by airlines in order to entice customers to collect points or miles. If customers engage in the reward program they are more likely to stay loyal to the airline and also purchase more trips. READ MORE

  4. 3. Well begun is half done - A study about procrastination

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Erik Jontell; Viktor Schönning; [2012]
    Keywords : Hyperbolic discounting; Exponential discounting; Start-up cost; Intertemporal choice; Procrastination;

    Abstract : While a considerable amount of research has been made on the discounting of future rewards, this thesis seeks to improve our knowledge of how people discount arduous tasks. Reward discounting has traditionally been modeled geometrically with the discounted utility model but has lately come into question by scientist favoring the hyperbolic model. READ MORE

  5. 4. Model-based Analysis of Individual Decision Making in the DNB Household Survey

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Shuai Guo; [2011]
    Keywords : prospect theory; Behavioral finance; model-based analysis; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Human financial decisions are known to deviate from ‘rational’, particularly under uncertainty and if time delays are involved. In the Nobel-winning prospect theory, Tversky and Kahneman showed that deviations from rational behavior were not only robust but also quite predictable, if considering average behavior in a population. READ MORE

  6. 5. For Future Reference; Cognitive Empathy is Augmented Over Temporal Distance: An investigation of temporal distance influence on empathy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Marieclaire Overton; [2010]
    Keywords : Vignette Method; Perspective Taking; Construal Level Theory; Temporal distance; Empathy; Emotional Empathy; Cognitive Empathy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The goal of this experiments was to investigate a possible link between emotional and cognitive empathy and temporal distance. Along the lines of the Affect dependent time discounting hypothesis (Liberman & Trope, 2000) it is proposed that emotional reactions to empathic events decrease with temporal distance and cognitive reactions to the same empathic events increase. READ MORE