A visceral account of addiction.

By George Loewenstein. 2001

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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The illusion of courage in social predictions: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on other people ! (2005, background): “This illusion of courage in selfpredictions is a speciWc case of “hot/cold empathy gaps,” which occur when people in an unaroused state underestimate the impact of being in an emotional situation on their preferences and decisions (Loewenstein, 1999; Loewenstein, O’Donoghue, & Rabin, 2003).”
Rational actors or rational fools: implications of the affect heuristic for behavioral economics (2002, background): “(Loewenstein, 1999): Unlike currently experienced visceral factors, which have a disproportionate impact on behavior, delayed visceral factors tend to be ignored or severely underweighted”
The measurement of drug craving. (2000, background): “Recently, applications of behavioral economics theory to addiction (e.g. Becker & Murphy, 1988; Loewenstein, 1999), have contributed to attempts to quantify the perceived reinforcement value of drugs by asking participants to choose between drug use and varying amounts of money (e.g. Griffiths et…”
Risk as Value: Combining Affect and Analysis in Risk Judgments (2006, background): “However, being purely driven by affect, as Loewenstein (1999) describes, may lead us astray because short-term gains may be pursued at the expense of more important, longer term gains.”
Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality (2004, background): “…are difficult if not impossible to recall or anticipate in a veridical manner, a factor that plays a key role in the phenomenon of addiction (Loewenstein, 1999): Unlike currently experienced visceral factors, which have a disproportionate impact on behavior, delayed visceral factors tend to…”
Self-other decision making and loss aversion (2012, background): “Choices tend to be different according to whether people make choices in ‘‘hot’’ or ‘‘cold’’ states (Loewenstein, 1999), in other words, with or without emotions (e.”
Risk as feelings. (2001, unknown): “Small probabilities of large gains provide substantial utility from "savoring" the gamble (Loewenstein, 1987) even when there is actually little likelihood of winning. Large probabilities of losses also provide utility from savoring because they are cognitively reframed as a (virtually) certain loss”