Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges

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Avoiding the Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving (2017, unknown): “…List, andMalmendier (2012) use a design similar to ours (though conceived independently) with the chief aim of 5 This explanation has much in common with the theory of cue-triggered choices of Bernheim and Rangel (2004) and the willpower depletion model of Ozdenoren, Salant, and Silverman (2012).”
Timing and Self-Control (2012, methodology): “In the “cake-eating” problem of Ozdenoren, Salant, and Silverman (2009), there is a cake of fixed size, the only choice is a consumption level an that reduces the size of the cake, and the objective of the long-run self is to maximize the discounted value of consumption until the exogenous terminal…”
The Fourfold Pattern of Risk Attitudes in Choice and Pricing Tasks (2010, background): “Impossible events are discarded such that w(0) ¼ 0 and the scale is normalised such 4 See e.g., Bernheim and Rangel (2004), Loewenstein and O’Donoghue (2005), Brocas and Carillo (2005), Fudenberg and Levine (2006) and Ozdenoren et al. (2006).”
Order in Product Customization Decisions: Evidence from Field Experiments (2010, background): “…and economics that models self-control as a muscle that “contracts” in the face of temptation (Muraven and Baumeister 2000); each subsequent encounter with a tempting stimulus requires greater willpower resources than an identical earlier encounter (Ozdenoren, Salant, and Silverman 2008).”