Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction
  • George Loewenstein, Daniel Read, and Roy F. Baumeister; 1. Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review
  • Shane Frederick, George Loewenstein, and Ted O'Donoghue; Part I: Philosophical, Evolutionary, and Neurobiological Underpinnings; 2. Time Preference and Personal Identity
  • Shane Frederick; 3. The Evolution of Patience
  • Alex Kacelnik; 4. A Neurobiology of Intertemporal Choice
  • Stephen B. Manuck, Janine D. Flory, Matthew F. Muldoon, and Robert E. Ferrell; Part II: Theoretical Perspectives
  • 5. Sustaining Delay of Gratification over Time: A Hot-Cool Systems Perspective
  • Walter Mischel, Ozlem Ayduk, and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton6. Willpower, Choice, and Self-Control
  • Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs; 7. Self-Awareness and Self-Control
  • Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin; 8. Construal Level Theory of Intertemporal Judgment and Decision
  • Nira Liberman and Yaacov Trope; 9. Self-Signaling and Self-Control
  • Drazen Prelec and Ronit Bodner; Part III: Patterns of Preference; 10. Subadditive Intertemporal Choice
  • Daniel Read
  • 11. Summary Assessment of Experiences: The Whole Is Different from the Sum of Its Parts
  • Dan Ariely and Ziv Carmon12. Predicting and Indulging Changing Preferences
  • George Loewenstein and Erik Angner; Part IV: Applications; 13. Time Discounting of Health Outcomes
  • Gretchen B. Chapman; 14. Delay Discounting: A Fundamental Behavioral Process of Drug Dependence
  • Warren K. Bickel and Matthew W. Johnson; 15. Fear as a Policy Instrument
  • Andrew Caplin; 16. Dieting as an Exercise in Behavioral Economics
  • C. Peter Herman and Janet Polivy
  • 17. Self-Rationing: Self-Control in Consumer Choice
  • Klaus Wertenbroch18. The Hyperbolic Consumption Model: Calibration, Simulation, and Empirical Evaluation
  • George-Marios Angeletos, David Laibson, Andrea Repetto, Jeremy Tobacman, and Stephen Weinberg; Index