Tom Sawyer and the construction of value

Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec

No 05-10, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Abstract: This paper challenges the common assumption that economic agents know their tastes. After reviewing previous research showing that valuation of ordinary products and experiences can be manipulated by non-normative cues, we present three studies showing that in some cases people do not even have a pre-existing sense of whether an experience is good or bad ? even when they have experienced a sample of it.

Keywords: Microeconomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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