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Working Papers

2005

1. Large stakes and big mistakes
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston View citations (9)
2. Tom Sawyer and the construction of value
   Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2006)

2004

3. Animal Spirits: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Economic Behavior
   Working Papers, Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics View citations (36)

2003

4. Anomalies: Intertemporal Choice
   Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine View citations (35)
5. Neuroeconomics: How neuroscience can inform economics
   Levine's Bibliography, UCLA Department of Economics View citations (29)

2002

6. Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
   Working Papers, Cornell University, Center for Analytic Economics View citations (4)
   Also in Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (2000) View citations (7)
   General Economics and Teaching, EconWPA (2001) View citations (1)
   Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2000) View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2003)

1996

7. Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers: One Day At A time
   Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences View citations (15)

Journal Articles

2011

1. Behind the veil of ignorance: Self-serving bias in climate change negotiations
   Judgment and Decision Making, 2011, 6, (7), 602-615
2. Is variety the spice of life? It all depends on the rate of consumption
   Judgment and Decision Making, 2011, 6, (3), 230-238
3. Strangers on a Plane: Context-Dependent Willingness to Divulge Sensitive Information
   Journal of Consumer Research, 2011, 37, (5), 858 - 873
4. The Limits of Transparency: Pitfalls and Potential of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
   American Economic Review, 2011, 101, (3), 423-28
5. Underpredicting Learning after Initial Experience with a Product
   Journal of Consumer Research, 2011, 37, (5), 723 - 736
6. When Sunlight Fails to Disinfect: Understanding the Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
   Journal of Consumer Research, 2011, 37, (5), 836 - 857 View citations (1)

2010

7. Informative inducement: Study payment as a signal of risk
   Social Science & Medicine, 2010, 70, (3), 455-464
8. Promoting Healthy Choices: Information versus Convenience
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2, (2), 164-78 View citations (5)
9. Self-Interest through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship
   American Economic Review, 2010, 100, (4), 1826-46 View citations (15)

2009

10. Strategies for Promoting Healthier Food Choices
    American Economic Review, 2009, 99, (2), 159-64 View citations (5)
11. The ostrich effect: Selective attention to information
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2009, 38, (2), 95-115 View citations (3)

2008

12. Conflicting motives in evaluations of sequences
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008, 37, (2), 221-235 View citations (4)
13. Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy
    Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92, (8-9), 1795-1810 View citations (20)
14. Myopic risk-seeking: The impact of narrow decision bracketing on lottery play
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008, 37, (1), 57-75 View citations (4)
15. Pain and Suffering Awards: They Shouldn't Be (Just) about Pain and Suffering
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37, (S2), S195-S216 View citations (1)
16. The tree of experience in the forest of information: Overweighing experienced relative to observed information
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, 62, (1), 263-286 View citations (10)
17. Tightwads and Spendthrifts
    Journal of Consumer Research, 2008, 34, (6), 767-782

2007

18. Altered states: The impact of immediate craving on the valuation of current and future opioids
    Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26, (5), 865-876 View citations (1)
19. Sympathy and callousness: The impact of deliberative thought on donations to identifiable and statistical victims
    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2007, 102, (2), 143-153 View citations (4)

2006

20. It must be awful for them: Healthy people overlook disease variability in quality of life judgments
    Judgment and Decision Making, 2006, 1, 146-152 View citations (1)
21. Misperceiving the value of information in predicting the performance of others
    Experimental Economics, 2006, 9, (3), 281-295 View citations (6)
22. Mistake #37: The Effect of Previously Encountered Prices on Current Housing Demand
    Economic Journal, 2006, 116, (508), 175-199 View citations (4)
23. Tom Sawyer and the construction of value
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006, 60, (1), 1-10 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper (2005)

2005

24. Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19, (3), 131-145 View citations (15)
25. The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2005, 34, (1), 1-25 View citations (21)
26. The illusion of courage in social predictions: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on other people
    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2005, 96, (2), 130-141 View citations (2)
27. Wearing out your shoes to prevent someone else from stepping into them: Anticipated regret and social takeover in sequential decisions
    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2005, 98, (1), 15-27 View citations (1)

2004

28. Neuroeconomics: Why Economics Needs Brains
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106, (3), 555-579 View citations (28)
29. The Economics of Meaning
    Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 30, 61-75 View citations (3)
30. When Ignorance Is Bliss: Information Exchange and Inefficiency in Bargaining
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2004, 33, (1), 37-58 View citations (6)

2003

31. "Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118, (1), 73-105 View citations (76)
32. Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2003, 26, (1), 5-16 View citations (15)
33. Mispredicting the endowment effect:: Underestimation of owners' selling prices by buyer's agents
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2003, 51, (3), 351-365 View citations (9)
34. Projection Bias In Predicting Future Utility
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118, (4), 1209-1248 View citations (83)
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2002

35. Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2002, 40, (2), 351-401 View citations (480)

2001

36. The Creative Destruction of Decision Research
    Journal of Consumer Research, 2001, 28, (3), 499-505 View citations (7)

2000

37. Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior
    American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (2), 426-432 View citations (91)

1999

38. Because It Is There: The Challenge of Mountaineering... for Utility Theory
    Kyklos, 1999, 52, (3), 315-43 View citations (17)
39. Choice Bracketing
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1999, 19, (1-3), 171-97 View citations (76)
40. Experimental Economics from the Vantage-Point of Behavioural Economics
    Economic Journal, 1999, 109, (453), F23-34 View citations (28)

1998

41. The Effect of Ownership History on the Valuation of Objects
    Journal of Consumer Research, 1998, 25, (3), 276-89 View citations (28)
42. The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt
    Marketing Science, 1998, 17, (1), 4-28 View citations (51)
43. Value measurement in cost-utility analysis: explaining the discrepancy between rating scale and person trade-off elicitations
    Health Policy, 1998, 43, (1), 33-44 View citations (5)

1997

44. Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997, 11, (1), 109-126 View citations (72)
45. Explaining the "Identifiable Victim Effect."
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1997, 14, (3), 235-57 View citations (21)
46. The role of decision analysis in informed consent: Choosing between intuition and systematicity
    Social Science & Medicine, 1997, 44, (5), 647-656 View citations (1)

1996

47. Choosing the Wrong Pond: Social Comparisons in Negotiations That Reflect a Self-Serving Bias
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996, 111, (1), 1-19 View citations (28)
48. Distributing scarce livers: The moral reasoning of the general public
    Social Science & Medicine, 1996, 42, (7), 1049-1055 View citations (7)
49. Out of Control: Visceral Influences on Behavior
    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1996, 65, (3), 272-292 View citations (116)

1995

50. A Bias in the Prediction of Tastes
    Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (431), 929-37 View citations (38)
51. The efficacy and equity of retransplantation: an experimental survey of public attitudes
    Health Policy, 1995, 34, (2), 145-151 View citations (4)
52. The relationship between uncertainty, the contract zone, and efficiency in a bargaining experiment
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1995, 27, (3), 475-485 View citations (4)

1994

53. The Effects of Interfirm Mobility and Individual versus Group Decision Making on Managerial Time Horizons
    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1994, 59, (3), 371-390 View citations (3)

1993

54. Managerial Time Horizons and Interfirm Mobility: An Experimental Investigation
    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1993, 56, (2), 266-284
55. Self-Serving Assessments of Fairness and Pretrial Bargaining
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 1993, 22, (1), 135-59 View citations (16)

1992

56. Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992, 107, (2), 573-97 View citations (241)
57. Egocentric interpretations of fairness and interpersonal conflict
    Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 1992, 51, (2), 176-197 View citations (19)

1991

58. Decision Making Over Time and Under Uncertainty: A Common Approach
    Management Science, 1991, 37, (7), 770-786 View citations (36)
59. Do Workers Prefer Increasing Wage Profiles?
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1991, 9, (1), 67-84 View citations (85)
60. Negative Time Preference
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (2), 347-52 View citations (46)
61. Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Consumer Self-Control
    Journal of Consumer Research, 1991, 17, (4), 492-507 View citations (46)

1990

62. Dynamic Processes in Risk Perception
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1990, 3, (2), 155-75 View citations (3)

1989

63. Intertemporal Choice
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1989, 3, (4), 181-93 View citations (76)
64. The Curse of Knowledge in Economic Settings: An Experimental Analysis
    Journal of Political Economy, 1989, 97, (5), 1232-54 View citations (46)

1988

65. Frames of Mind in Intertemporal Choice
    Management Science, 1988, 34, (2), 200-214 View citations (29)

1987

66. Anticipation and the Valuation of Delayed Consumption
    Economic Journal, 1987, 97, (387), 666-84 View citations (95)

Books

2008

1. Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (3)

Chapters

2009

1. That Which Makes Life Worthwhile
   A chapter in Measuring the Subjective Well-Being of Nations: National Accounts of Time Use and Well-Being, 2009, pp 87-106 View citations (1)