George Loewenstein

Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

Professor of Economics and Psychology

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

United States

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Scholarly Papers (113)

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The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray

Please cite as: Chater, N. & Loewenstein, G. (in press). The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017&am
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 11 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2022
Nick Chater and George Loewenstein
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 16,629 (460)
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Behavioral public policy, behavioral economics, framing, nudge, climate change, obesity, addiction, behavior change

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Behavioral Economics

HANDBOOK OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMIC, pp. 641-690, Uskali Mäki ed., Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2012
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 15 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2011
Erik Angner and George Loewenstein
Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 8,106 (1,589)
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Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Science, History, Philosophy, Methodology

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Coherent Arbitrariness: Duration-Sensitive Pricing of Hedonic Stimuli Around an Arbitrary Anchor

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Sep 2000
Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 4,310 (4,632)
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Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for 'Asymmetric Paternalism'

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 151, p. 1211, 2003, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 225
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Apr 2003 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2010
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University School of Law, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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behavioral economics, regulation, paternalism

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Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform Economics

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 17 Sep 2004
Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 3,788 (5,755)
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Neuroeconomics, neuroscience

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Animal Spirits: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Economic Behavior

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 May 2004
George Loewenstein and Ted O'Donoghue
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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It is Not What You Get But When You Get it: The Effect of Gift Sequence on Deposit Balances and Customer Sentiment in a Commercial Bank

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Feb 2009
George Loewenstein and Emily Celia Haisley
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Yale School of Management
Downloads 2,557 (10,797)
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reciprocation, gift giving, sequence effects, preference patterns

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Tightwads and Spendthrifts

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Apr 2006
Scott Rick, Cynthia Cryder and George Loewenstein
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 2,470 (11,413)
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Consumer Decision Making, Individual Differences, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics

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The Best of Strangers: Context Dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Leslie K. John, Alessandro Acquisti and George Loewenstein
Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 2,129 (14,452)
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Privacy, Behavioral Economics, Laboratory Experiment, Consumer Research, Disclosure

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Risk as Feelings

Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 127, 2001
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Oct 2006
George Loewenstein, Elke U. Weber and Christopher K. Hsee
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Princeton University - Department of Psychology and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 2,125 (14,499)
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choice under risk, affect, risk-as-feelings, risk preference, risk attitude

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The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information

Number of pages: 118 Posted: 20 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2021
Russell Golman, George Loewenstein, Andras Molnar and Silvia Saccardo
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 2,118 (14,568)
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curiosity, information, information gap, motivated attention, ostrich effect

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Information Avoidance

Journal of Economic Literature, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2016
Russell Golman, David Hagmann and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 2,062 (15,177)
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information, information avoidance, behavioral economics

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The Role of Emotion in Economic Behavior

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Jan 2007
Scott Rick and George Loewenstein
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 1,945 (16,656)
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Emotion, Behavioral Economics

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Citation 17

Warning: You Are About to Be Nudged

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 31 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2015
George Loewenstein, Cindy Bryce, David Hagmann and Sachin Rajpal
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Independent
Downloads 1,316 (29,771)
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advance directives, nudges, defaults, behavioral economics

Warning: You are about to be Nudged

Behavioral Science & Policy, 1(1), 35-42, 2015
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 18 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2015
George Loewenstein, Cindy Bryce, David Hagmann and Sachin Rajpal
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Independent
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advance directives, nudges, defaults, behavioral economics

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The Impact of Credit Cards on Spending: A Field Experiment

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2010
Elif Incekara-Hafalir and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 1,438 (26,508)
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Credit cards, spending, field experiments

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The Economics of Attention

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 28 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
George Loewenstein and Zachary Wojtowicz
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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JEL: D83, D90, D91, I00 Attention, motivation, behavioral bias, information, learning, education, artificial intelligence, machine learning, future of work

The Economics of Attention

CESifo Working Paper No. 10712
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 25 Oct 2023
George Loewenstein and Zachary Wojtowicz
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Harvard University
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attention, motivation, behavioural bias, information, learning, education, artificial intelligence, machine learning, future of work

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Boredom and Flow: An Opportunity Cost Theory of Motivational Attention

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 13 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 15 May 2023
Zachary Wojtowicz, Nick Chater and George Loewenstein
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Warwick - Warwick Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 1,324 (30,035)
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attention, boredom, flow

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Citation 62

Disclosure: Psychology Changes Everything

Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 13-30
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2013
George Loewenstein, Cass R. Sunstein and Russell Golman
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 1,282 (30,943)
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regulation, public disclosure, psychology, economics

Disclosure: Psychology Changes Everything

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 6, pp. 391-419, 2014
Posted: 08 Aug 2014
George Loewenstein, Cass R. Sunstein and Russell Golman
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Harvard Law School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

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The Wick in the Candle of Learning: Epistemic Curiosity Activates Reward Circuitry and Enhances Memory

Psychological Science
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 01 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2008
California Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Stanford University - Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Neuroimaging, Memory, Learning, Brain

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The 'Ostrich Effect': Selective Attention to Information About Investments

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Aug 2005
Niklas Karlsson, Duane J. Seppi and George Loewenstein
Goteborg University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 1,230 (33,354)
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investor behavior, selective exposure, attention

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The Economist as Therapist: Methodological Ramifications of 'Light' Paternalism

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Feb 2007
George Loewenstein and Emily Celia Haisley
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Yale School of Management
Downloads 1,190 (34,935)
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Behavioral economics, asymmetric paternalism, libertarian paternalism, behavioral public policy, welfare criteria

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You Call It ‘Self-Exuberance,’ I Call It ‘Bragging.’ Miscalibrated Predictions of Emotional Responses to Self-Promotion

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2014
Irene Scopelliti, George Loewenstein and Joachim Vosgerau
City University London - The Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Bocconi University
Downloads 1,138 (37,232)

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Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices with Incentives for Truth-Telling

Psychological Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 01 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2012
Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec
Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 1,119 (38,139)
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Judgment, Professional standards, Research methods

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The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Jan 2009
Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore
Yale School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
Downloads 1,047 (42,024)
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conflicts of interest, disclosure, advice, advising, moral licensing, altruism, consumer protection, regulation, ethics

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Statistical, Identifiable and Iconic Victims and Perpetrators

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Mar 2005
George Loewenstein, Deborah Small and Jeff Strnad
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Psychology and Stanford Law School
Downloads 970 (46,810)
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identifiable victim effect, tax policy, public finance, behavioral economics

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Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age

Acquisti, Alessandro, Brandimarte, Laura, and Loewenstein, George, 'Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age'. Journal of Consumer Psychology. 30(4); 736-758 (Oct. 2020). doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1191.
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 27 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2021
Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Arizona - Eller College of Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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Privacy, Privacy regulation, Psychology of privacy, Privacy Paradox

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Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility

U.C. Berkeley Economics Working Paper E00-284
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Nov 2000
George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Addiction, Consumption, Cooling Off, Misprediction, Projection Bias, Reference Dependence

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Narratives and Valuations

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 10 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2023
Dor Morag and George Loewenstein
University of Pittsburgh, Students and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 759 (64,400)
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Decision-Making, Experimental, Narratives, Stories, Valuations, Willingness to Accept

Narratives and Valuations

CESifo Working Paper No. 10714
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 25 Oct 2023
Dor Morag and George Loewenstein
University of Pittsburgh, Students and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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decision-making, experimental, narratives, valuations, willingness to accept

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If I'm Not Hot, are You Hot or Not? Physical Attractiveness Evaluations and Dating Preferences as a Function of Own Attractiveness

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Nov 2007
Leonard Lee, George Loewenstein, Dan Ariely, James Hong and Jim Young
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Dating Preferences, Hedonic Adaptation, Prospect Theory, Attractiveness

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The Under-Appreciated Drive for Sense-Making

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Apr 2015
Nick Chater and George Loewenstein
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 771 (64,031)
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Sense-making, complexity, information theory, drive, motivation, simplicity, coding, information avoidance, confirmation bias, narrative

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Tom Sawyer and the Construction of Value

FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 05-10
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Aug 2005
Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads 713 (70,894)

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Preferences, preference uncertainty, coherent arbitrariness

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Order Preference

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Jul 2014
Ellen Evers, Yoel Inbar, George Loewenstein and Marcel Zeelenberg
UC Berkeley, Haas, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Tilburg University - Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Downloads 709 (71,388)
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Information Gaps for Risk and Ambiguity

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 May 2015 Last Revised: 26 May 2015
Russell Golman, George Loewenstein and Nikolos Gurney
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Students
Downloads 690 (73,976)
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ambiguity, gambling, information gap, risk, uncertainty

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Investor Logins and the Disposition Effect

Number of pages: 106 Posted: 21 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2022
University of Leeds Business School, University of Nottingham - School of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Downloads 613 (85,748)
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reference point, disposition effect, attention, login, investor behavior

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Financial Attention

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 13 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2015
Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Pennsylvania
Downloads 591 (90,079)
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Investor Attention, Portfolio Trading, Behavioral Economics/Finance, Ostrich Effect

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The Tree of Experience in the Forest of Information: Overweighing Experienced Relative to Observed Information

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 Mar 2004
Uri Simonsohn, Niklas Karlsson, George Loewenstein and Dan Ariely
ESADE Business School, Goteborg University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
Downloads 574 (93,234)
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Games, behavioral economics, psychology, experimental economics, learning

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Fragile Self-Esteem

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021
Botond Koszegi, George Loewenstein and Takeshi Murooka
University of Bonn - Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Osaka University
Downloads 573 (93,625)
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ego, confidence, self-esteem, personal equilibria

Attention Utility: Evidence From Individual Investors

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 25 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 03 May 2024
University of Leeds Business School, University of Nottingham - School of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Downloads 425 (132,965)
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information utility, attention, investor behavior

Attention Utility: Evidence from Individual Investors

CESifo Working Paper No. 8091
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Feb 2020
University of Leeds Business School, University of Nottingham - School of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
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information utility, attention, login, investor behavior

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Torture in the Eyes of the Beholder: The Psychological Difficulty of Defining Torture in Law and Policy

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 May 2011 Last Revised: 10 May 2011
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, Loran Nordgren and George Loewenstein
The Wharton School - The University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University - Department of Management & Organizations and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 555 (97,487)

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torture, human rights, psychology

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Preference Reversals between Joint and Separate Evaluations of Options: A Review and Theoretical Analysis

Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 125, No. 5, 1999, Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 06-14
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Oct 2006
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, New York University (NYU) - Department of Management and Organizational Behavior and Harvard Business School - Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit
Downloads 540 (100,737)
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evaluability, joint evaluation, separate evaluation, preference reversal, utility function

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The Effect of Ownership History on the Valuation of Objects

Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1998
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Dec 2010
Michal Ann Strahilevitz and George Loewenstein
Saint Mary's College of California - School of Economics & Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 505 (109,340)
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ownership history, endowment effect, valuation

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Testing Strategies to Increase Saving and Retention in Individual Development Account Programs

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 22 Feb 2016
The Ohio State University - Department of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University, Independent and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 478 (116,700)
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Mental Money Laundering: A Motivated Violation of Fungibility

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 05 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2020
Alex Imas, George Loewenstein and Carey Morewedge
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Mental accounting; moral behavior; source dependence; money laundering

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The Preference for Belief Consonance

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Jun 2016
Russell Golman, George Loewenstein, Karl O. Moene and Luca Zarri
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Oslo - Department of Economics and University of Verona - Department of Economics
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Beliefs, Consonance, Utility, Identity

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Habit Formation in Children: Evidence from Incentives for Healthy Eating

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Oct 2014
George Loewenstein, Joseph Price and Kevin Volpp
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Brigham Young University and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
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The Red, the Black, and the Plastic: Paying Down Credit Card Debt for Hotels Not Sofas

Quispe Torreblanca E G, Stewart N, Gathergood J, Loewenstein G. The red, the black, and the plastic: paying down credit card debt for hotels not sofas. Management Sci., Forthcoming
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 19 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2019
University of Leeds Business School, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, University of Nottingham - School of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 316 (185,806)
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mental accounting, credit cards, debt repayment

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Thoughts and Players: An Introduction to Old and New Economic Perspectives on Beliefs

The Science of Beliefs: A multidisciplinary Approach (provisional title, to be published in October 2021). Cambridge University Press. Edited by Julien Musolino, Joseph Sommer, and Pernille Hemmer
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Mar 2021
Andras Molnar and George Loewenstein
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 312 (188,312)
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Anticipatory Emotions, Belief-based Utility, Cognitive Dissonance, False Beliefs, Homophily, Motivated Reasoning, Polarization, Self-esteem, Theory of Mind

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Slow Down! Insensitivity to Rate of Consumption Leads to Avoidable Satiation

Journal of Consumer Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 03 May 2012
Jeff Galak, Justin Kruger, Justin Kruger and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University, New York University (NYU)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 308 (191,684)
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satiation, consumers, habituation, hedonic, enjoyment

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Is Variety the Spice of Life? It All Depends on the Rate of Consumption

Judgment and Decision Making, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Mar 2011
Jeff Galak, Justin Kruger, Justin Kruger and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University, New York University (NYU)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 302 (195,059)
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variety, decision making,diversification bias, enjoyment

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'It's Not About the Money. It's About Sending a Message!': Avengers Want Offenders to Understand the Reason for Revenge

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 22 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2022
Andras Molnar, Shereen Chaudhry and George Loewenstein
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 299 (197,050)
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Beliefs, Belief-based utility, Communication, Justice, Morality, Punishment, Revenge

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Measuring Information Preferences

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 Nov 2018
Emily Ho, David Hagmann and George Loewenstein
Fordham University, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 298 (197,737)
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Information Avoidance, Scale Development, Information Preference, Health, Consumer Finance

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Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat

Forthcoming, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2013
Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Scott Rick
Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 290 (203,487)
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dishonesty, decision making, social comparison, fairness, pay secrecy

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Costly Distractions: Focusing on Individual Behavior Undermines Support for Systemic Reforms

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 May 2023
David Hagmann, Yi-tsen Liao, Nick Chater and George Loewenstein
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), University of Warwick - Warwick Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 285 (208,663)

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Behavioral public policy, Nudges, Attention, Responsibility, Attribution

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The Motivational Processes of Sense-Making

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 11 May 2021
Zachary Wojtowicz, Nick Chater and George Loewenstein
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Warwick - Warwick Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 284 (207,951)
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beliefs, information, motivation, affect

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Underestimating Learning by Doing

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2024
Samantha Horn and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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learning, beliefs, forecasting

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The False and the Furious: People are more disturbed by others' false beliefs than by differences in beliefs

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2020
Andras Molnar and George Loewenstein
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 283 (210,151)
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beliefs, false beliefs, homophily, polarization, belief-dissonance

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Nothing to Declare: Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosure Leads Advisors to Avoid Conflicts of Interest

Psychological Science, 2014, 25(2), 575-584. , Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper, Edmond J. Safra Working Papers
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2023
Sunita Sah and George Loewenstein
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 260 (227,341)
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conflicts of interest, ethics, disclosure, decision making, policy-making

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At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition E ect

Number of pages: 123 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2024
University of Leeds Business School, University of Warwick, University of Nottingham - School of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
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reference points, disposition e ect, selling homes, investor behaviour JEL Codes: G40, G41, D14

59.

Financial Attention

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 31 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 22 May 2015
Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Pennsylvania
Downloads 240 (246,013)
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investors attention, ostrich effect, behavioral economics/finance

60.

Self-Interest Through Agency: An Alternative Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Sep 2008
John Hamman, George Loewenstein and Roberto A. Weber
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Zurich - Department of Economics
Downloads 234 (252,044)
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fairness, principal-agent, experiments

61.

What is Privacy Worth?

The Journal of Legal Studies, 42(2), 249--274, 2013 https://doi.org/10.1086/671754
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2021
Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 232 (255,224)
Citation 66

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Privacy

62.

Emote Control: The Substitution of Symbol for Substance in Foreign Policy and International Law

Chicago Kent Law Review, Vol. 80, July 2005
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Jul 2005
Jules Lobel and George Loewenstein
University of Pittsburgh - School of Law and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 229 (257,405)
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emotion, law and economics, foreign policy, international law

63.

Clinical Signs Associated with Earlier Diagnosis of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
Columbia University, Columbia University, Columbia University, Mount Sinai Health System - Icahn School of Medicine, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Department of Psychiatry
Downloads 211 (277,868)
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Autism spectrum disorder; symptoms; clinical signs; early diagnosis; diagnosis age; regression trees

64.

Misplaced Confidences Privacy and the Control Paradox

Social Psychological and Personality Science, 4(3), 340--347, 2013 https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550612455931
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2021
Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 198 (294,551)
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privacy, control, paradox, behavioral economics of privacy, Web 2.0 applications

65.

Mispredicting the Endowment Effect: Underestimation of Owners' Selling Prices by Buye's Agents

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Feb 2002
Leaf Van Boven, David Dunning and George Loewenstein
University of Colorado Boulder, Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 196 (297,275)
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Behavioral economics, endowment effect, experimental economics

66.

Asymmetric Outcome Matching in Responders’ Disclosure of Successes and Failures

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2022
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), City University London - The Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Bocconi University
Downloads 194 (300,130)
Citation 1

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outcome disclosure, success, failure, conversations, impression management

67.

Intangibility in Intertemporal Choice

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2008
Scott Rick and George Loewenstein
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 189 (307,308)
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Intertemporal Choice, Discounted Utility, Tradeoffs, Tangibility, Emotion

68.

Wearing Out Your Shoes to Prevent Someone Else from Stepping into Them: Anticipated Regret and Social Takeover in Sequential Decisions

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 May 2004
Erik Hoelzl and George Loewenstein
University of Cologne and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 189 (307,308)

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Commitment, Decision making, Social Comparison, Regret, Counterfactual Comparisons

69.

A Personal-Equilibria Model of Insecurity

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Botond Koszegi, George Loewenstein and Takeshi Murooka
University of Bonn - Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Osaka University
Downloads 188 (308,721)

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Self-esteem, insecurity, narcissism, feedback

70.

How Close Is Too Close: The Effect of Near Losses on Subsequent Risk Taking

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 177 (327,507)
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near misses, decision making, risk, luck

71.

Dying to Divulge: The Determinants of, and Relationship Between, Desired and Actual Disclosure

Number of pages: 123 Posted: 22 Jun 2020
Erin Carbone and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 174 (330,887)
Citation 1

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Disclosure, Information, Privacy

72.

Empathy Gaps in Emotional Perspective Taking

OTHER MINDS: HOW HUMANS BRIDGE THE DIVIDE BETWEEN SELF AND OTHERS, S. Hodges, B. Malle, eds., Guilford Press, 2005
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven and George Loewenstein
University of Colorado Boulder and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 166 (346,440)

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73.

The Impact of Immediate Craving on the Valuation of Current and Future Opioids

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Nov 2004
University of Vermont, University of Vermont, Duke University - Medical Center, Southern Illinois University, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Vermont
Downloads 166 (344,663)
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Addiction, utility elicitation, decision making

74.

An S-Frame Agenda for Behavioral Public Policy Research

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2024
Daniel Connolly, George Loewenstein and Nick Chater
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
Downloads 143 (389,721)
Citation 1

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Behavioral public policy, behavioral economics, randomized controlled trials

75.

Near-Miss Deterrence: Incorporating Near-Miss Effects into Deterrence Theory

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Apr 2021
Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University
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Deterrence, Ethics, Cheating, Risk-Taking

76.

"It's Not About the Money. It's About Sending a Message!" Unpacking the Components of Revenge

CESifo Working Paper No. 8102
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Feb 2020
Andras Molnar, Shereen Chaudhry and George Loewenstein
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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beliefs, belief-based utility, justice, fairness, morality, punishment, revenge

77.

Taking it Easy: Choosing Practice of Suboptimal Difficulty

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Feb 2023
Samantha Horn, Angela Duckworth, Zhaoying Liu and George Loewenstein
The University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 109 (489,082)

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learning, beliefs, practice

78.

Mispredicting the Endowment Effect: Underestimation of Owners’ Selling Prices by Buyer’s Agents

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 51, pp. 351-365, 2003
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
George Loewenstein, David Dunning and Leaf Van Boven
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Cornell University and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 106 (492,449)

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Behavioral economic, Endowment effect, Experimental economics

79.

Empirical Observations on Longer-Term Use of Incentives for Weight Loss

Preventative Medicine, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Feb 2012
Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp
Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Downloads 103 (499,270)

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weight loss, behavioral economics, randomized controlled trial, obesity

80.

Egocentric Empathy Gaps between Owners and Buyers: Misperceptions of the Endowment Effect

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 66-76, 2000
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
George Loewenstein and Leaf Van Boven
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 102 (502,622)
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81.

Creating Convergence: Debiasing Biased Litigants

Law & Social Inquiry, October 1997
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Sep 1997 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2013
Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein and Samuel Issacharoff
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and New York University School of Law
Downloads 97 (519,860)
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82.

Information Avoidance and Information Seeking Among Parents of Children with ASD

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Jul 2019
Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Department of Psychiatry
Downloads 82 (577,074)
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ASD, early diagnosis, information avoidance, age of diagnosis, autism

83.

Do Individuals Make Sensible Health Insurance Decisions? Evidence from a Menu with Dominated Options

NBER Working Paper No. w21160
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 May 2015 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2023
Saurabh Bhargava, George Loewenstein and Justin R. Sydnor
Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Wisconsin - Madison
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84.

Strangers on a Plane: Context-Dependent Willingness to Divulge Sensitive Information

Journal of Consumer Research 37(5):858-873 Feb 2011 https://doi.org/10.1086/656423
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Leslie K. John, Alessandro Acquisti and George Loewenstein
Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 77 (598,291)
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Privacy, Sensitive Information

85.

Reasons for Both Pessimism and Optimism: A Response to the Commentaries

Journal of Consumer Psychology 30.4 (2020): 780-783 https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1187
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 06 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2021
Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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economic psychology, public policy issues, social networks and social media

86.

The Illusion of Courage in Social Predictions: Underestimating the Impact of Fear of Embarrassment on Other People

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 96, pp. 130-141, 2005
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Feb 2010
Leaf Van Boven, George Loewenstein and David Dunning
University of Colorado Boulder, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Cornell University
Downloads 72 (621,078)
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AVective forecasting, Decision making, Empathy gaps, Emotion, Judgment, Prediction, Perspective taking

87.

Cross-Situational Projection

SELF AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT, M. Alicke, J. Krueger, D. Dunning, eds., pp. 43-64, Psychology Press, 2005
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Feb 2010
George Loewenstein and Leaf Van Boven
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Colorado Boulder
Downloads 71 (625,761)

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88.

Fear and Promise of the Unknown: How Losses Discourage and Promote Exploration

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Oct 2021
Alycia Chin, David Hagmann and George Loewenstein
Securities and Exchange Commission, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 61 (676,067)

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explore-exploit, loss aversion, decisions from experience, framing

89.

Identifying a Reliable Boredom Induction

A Markey, A Chin, EM VanEpps, G Loewenstein. (2014). Identifying a reliable boredom induction, Perceptual & Motor Skills 119 (1), 237-253.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2018
Amanda Markey, Alycia Chin, Eric Van Epps and George Loewenstein
Independent, Securities and Exchange Commission, Independent and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Downloads 58 (692,265)
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90.

Sleights of Privacy: Framing, Disclosures, and the Limits of Transparency

SOUPS '13: Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security 9; 1-11, July 24-26, 2013 DOI 10.1145/2501604.2501613
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Oct 2022
Pamplin College of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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Privacy, Privacy Policies, Notice and Choice, Behavioral Economics, Biases

91.

When and Why Randomized Response Techniques (Fail To) Elicit the Truth

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Elsevier, vol. 148(C), pages 101-123.
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2021
Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Bocconi University
Downloads 53 (720,843)
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Truth-Telling, Lying, Privacy, Information Disclosure, Survey Research

92.

The Rhetoric of Reaction, Extended

Forthcoming, Behavioral Public Policy.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 Oct 2022
Nick Chater and George Loewenstein
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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Behavioral public policy, behavioral economics, framing, nudge, rhetoric of reaction

93.

The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose

Journal of Marketing Research, 49(2), 160--174, 2012
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 06 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2022
Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Business School and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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survey design, self-disclosure, electronic commerce, privacy

94.

The Drive to Disclose

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 07 Dec 2022
Erin Carbone and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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Disclosure, Privacy, Information-sharing

95.

Social Projection of Transient Drive States

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 29, pp. 1159-1168, 2003
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
George Loewenstein and Leaf Van Boven
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of Colorado Boulder
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egocentrism, empathy gaps, perspective taking

96.
Downloads 34 (855,412)

It Hurts to Ask

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15576
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 29 Sep 2022
Roland Bénabou, Ania Jaroszewicz and George Loewenstein
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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helping, asking, rejection, respect, shyness, altruism, cooperation, prosocial, image, reputation, information aversion

It Hurts to Ask

NBER Working Paper No. w30486
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 26 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2023
Roland Bénabou, Ania Jaroszewicz and George Loewenstein
Princeton University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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97.

Grandma Knows Best: Family Structure and Age of Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism, Volume: 22 issue: 3, page(s): 368-376 (2018)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 Jun 2019
Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Mount Sinai Medical Centre and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Department of Psychiatry
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age of diagnosis, autism, family structure, grandparents, siblings

98.

(Inaccurate) Beliefs about Skill Decay

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 26 Aug 2024
Daniel Connolly, Samantha Horn and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, The University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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learning, beliefs, skill decay

99.

(Dis)satisfaction with Risk Preferences

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Sep 2024
Linda Thunstrom, Andrea Mannberg, Ben Gilbert and George Loewenstein
University of Wyoming, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Colorado School of Mines - Division of Economics and Business and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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Risk preferences, emotions

100.

Privacy and Human Behavior in the Age of Information

Science, 347(6221), 509--514, 2015
Posted: 06 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2019
Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

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Privacy, Human Behavior, Information Age

101.

Bored in the USA: Experience Sampling and Boredom in Everyday Life

Chin, A., Markey, A., Bhargava, S., Kassam, K. S., & Loewenstein, G. (2017). Bored in the USA: Experience Sampling and Boredom in Everyday Life. Emotion, 17(2): 359. DOI:10.1037/emo0000232
Posted: 05 Jun 2018
Securities and Exchange Commission, Independent, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University - Department of Psychology and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

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boredom, trait boredom, state boredom, emotions, experience sampling

102.

Choice Architecture, Framing, and Cascaded Privacy Choices

Management Science 65(5); 1949-2443 May 2019 https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3028
Posted: 17 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2022
Idris Adjerid, Alessandro Acquisti and George Loewenstein
Pamplin College of Business, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

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Choice Architecture, Privacy, Behavioral Economics, Policy

103.

The Impact of Idea Generation and Potential Appropriation on Entrepreneurship: An Experimental Study

Management Science (Articles in Advance)
Posted: 17 May 2016 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2016
Soheil Hooshangi and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

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Entrepreneurship; Investment; Imitation; Overconfidence; Takeover aversion

104.

Conflicted Advice and Second Opinions: Benefits, but Unintended Consequences

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (Forthcoming), Edmond J. Safra Working Paper No. 13
Posted: 24 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2016
Sunita Sah and George Loewenstein
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

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advice, bias, conflicts of interest, second opinions, judgment, ethical decision making, rationalizations, advisors, influence, behavioral economics, behavioral ethics, morality, ethics, moral disengagement

105.

The Illusion of Courage in Self-Predictions: Mispredicting One's Own Behavior in Embarrassing Situations

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-12, January 2012
Posted: 31 Jan 2012
Leaf Van Boven, George Loewenstein, Edward Welch and David Dunning
University of Colorado Boulder, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell University

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affective forecasting, decision making, choice, embarrassment, empathy gaps, emotion, intuition, judgment, prediction

106.

What Constitutes Torture? Psychological Impediments to an Objective Evaluation of Interrogation Tactics

Psychological Science, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 689-694, 2011
Posted: 24 Jul 2011
Loran Nordgren, Mary-Hunter McDonnell and George Loewenstein
Northwestern University - Department of Management & Organizations, The Wharton School - The University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

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torture, empathy gaps, pain

107.

Financial Incentives for Longer-Term Weight Loss: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2012
University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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108.

When Sunlight Fails to Disinfect: Understanding the Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest

Journal of Consumer Research, Forthcoming
Posted: 07 Jul 2010
Daylian M. Cain, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore
Yale School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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109.

The Burden of Disclosure: Increased Compliance with Distrusted Advice

Sah, S., Loewenstein, G., & Cain, D. (2013). The Burden of Disclosure: Increased Compliance with Distrusted Advice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 104(2), 289-304. doi: 10.1037/a0030527.
Posted: 25 May 2010 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2013
Sunita Sah, George Loewenstein and Daylian M. Cain
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Yale School of Management

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conflicts of interest, disclosure, advice, ethics, regulation, reluctant altruism

110.

Neuroeconomics

Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 59, January 2008
Posted: 10 Jan 2008
George Loewenstein, Scott Rick and Jonathan D. Cohen
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Princeton University - Department of Psychology

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decision making, emotions, dual-process theories, neuroscience, behavioral economics

111.

Paying $1 to Lose $2: Misperceptions of the Value of Information in Predicting the Performance of Others

Carnegie Mellon Behavioral Decision Research Working Paper No. 301
Posted: 06 Nov 2002
George Loewenstein, Don A. Moore and Roberto A. Weber
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and University of Zurich - Department of Economics

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Curse of knowledge, information, biases and heuristics, experiments

112.

Explaining the Identifiable Victim Effect

JOURNAL OF RISK AND UNCERTAINITY, Vol. 14, No. 3 (February 1997)
Posted: 20 Dec 1998
Karen E. Jenni and George Loewenstein
Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

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113.

Self-control ≠ temporal discounting

Provisionally Accepted, Current Opinion in Psychology
Number of pages: 9
George Loewenstein and Erin Carbone
Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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Self-control, time discounting, affects, precommitment