Contents
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-Denton
6. 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 Carmon
12. 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 Wertenbroch
18. The Hyperbolic Consumption Model: Calibration, Simulation, and Empirical Evaluation - George-Marios Angeletos, David Laibson, Andrea Repetto, Jeremy Tobacman, and Stephen Weinberg
Index