George Loewenstein

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• Carnegie Mellon University → Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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  • location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)

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• Intertemporal Choice.
  by Loewenstein, George & Thaler, Richard H.
• Self-Serving Assessments of Fairness and Pretrial Bargaining.
  by Loewenstein, George & Issacharoff, Samuel & Camerer, Colin & Babcock, Linda
• Explaining Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases
  by Linda Babcock & George Loewenstein
• Negative Time Preference.
  by Lowenstein, George & Prelec, Drazen
• The Curse of Knowledge in Economic Settings: An Experimental Analysis.
  by Camerer, Colin & Loewenstein, George & Weber, Martin
• A Bias in the Prediction of Tastes.
  by Loewenstein, George & Adler, Daniel
• Anticipation and the Valuation of Delayed Consumption.
  by Loewenstein, George
• Explaining the "Identifiable Victim Effect."
  by Jenni, Karen E. & Loewenstein, George
• Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior
  by George Loewenstein
• Do Workers Prefer Increasing Wage Profiles?
  by Loewenstein, George F. & Sicherman, Nachum
• Dynamic Processes in Risk Perception.
  by Loewenstein, George & Mather, Jane
• Choice Bracketing.
  by Read, Daniel & Loewenstein, George & Rabin, Matthew
• Time Discounting and Time Preference: A Critical Review
  by Shane Frederick & George Loewenstein & Ted O'Donoghue
• Experimental Economics from the Vantage-Point of Behavioural Economics.
  by Loewenstein, George
• Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers: One Day At A time
  by Camerer, Colin & Babcock, Linda & Loewenstein, George & Thaler, Richard
• Neuroeconomics: Why Economics Needs Brains
  by Colin F. Camerer & George Loewenstein & Drazen Prelec
• Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
  by George Loewenstein & Ted O'Donoghue & Matthew Rabin
• The relationship between uncertainty, the contract zone, and efficiency in a bargaining experiment
  by Babcock, Linda & Loewenstein, George & Wang, Xianghong
• Anomalies: Intertemporal Choice
  by George Loewenstein & Richard H. Thaler
• Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility.
  by George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin.
• Mispredicting the endowment effect:: Underestimation of owners' selling prices by buyer's agents
  by Van Boven, Leaf & Loewenstein, George & Dunning, David
• Mistake #37: The Effect of Previously Encountered Prices on Current Housing Demand
  by Uri Simonsohn & George Loewenstein
• Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability.
  by Small, Deborah A. & Loewenstein, George
• Large stakes and big mistakes
  by Dan Ariely & Uri Gneezy & George Loewenstein & Nina Mazar
• Tom Sawyer and the construction of value
  by Dan Ariely & George Loewenstein & Drazen Prelec
• That Which Makes Life Worthwhile
  by George Loewenstein
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• Decision Making Over Time and Under Uncertainty: A Common Approach
  by Drazen Prelec & George Loewenstein
• Egocentric interpretations of fairness and interpersonal conflict
  by Thompson, Leigh & Loewenstein, George
• The role of decision analysis in informed consent: Choosing between intuition and systematicity
  by Ubel, P. A. & Loewenstein, G.
• The Effects of Interfirm Mobility and Individual versus Group Decision Making on Managerial Time Horizons
  by Mannix, Elizabeth A. & Loewenstein, George F.
• Distributing scarce livers: The moral reasoning of the general public
  by Ubel, Peter A. & Loewenstein, George
• The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt
  by Drazen Prelec & George Loewenstein
• Wearing out your shoes to prevent someone else from stepping into them: Anticipated regret and social takeover in sequential decisions
  by Hoelzl, Erik & Loewenstein, George
• Pain and Suffering Awards: They Shouldn't Be (Just) about Pain and Suffering
  by Peter A. Ubel & George Loewenstein
• Exotic Preferences: Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation
  by Loewenstein, George
• Managerial Time Horizons and Interfirm Mobility: An Experimental Investigation
  by Mannix, Elizabeth A. & Loewenstein, George F.
• Conflicting motives in evaluations of sequences
  by Shane Frederick & George Loewenstein
• Frames of Mind in Intertemporal Choice
  by George F. Loewenstein
• Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy
  by Loewenstein, George & Ubel, Peter A.
• Animal Spirits: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Economic Behavior
  by Loewenstein, George & O'Donoghue, Ted
• When Ignorance Is Bliss: Information Exchange and Inefficiency in Bargaining
  by George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore
• Out of Control: Visceral Influences on Behavior
  by Loewenstein, George
• The efficacy and equity of retransplantation: an experimental survey of public attitudes
  by Ubel, Peter A. & Loewenstein, George
• Self-Interest through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship
  by John R. Hamman & George Loewenstein & Roberto A. Weber
• Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
  by Loewenstein, George & O'Donoghue, Ted & Rabin, Matthew
• Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist
  by Nava Ashraf & Colin F. Camerer & George Loewenstein
• Promoting Healthy Choices: Information versus Convenience
  by Jessica Wisdom & Julie S. Downs & George Loewenstein
• Is variety the spice of life? It all depends on the rate of consumption
  by Jeff Galak & Justin Kruger & George Loewenstein
• Tom Sawyer and the construction of value
  by Ariely, Dan & Loewenstein, George & Prelec, Drazen
• The Dirt on Coming Clean: Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
  by Daylian M. Cain & George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore
• Sympathy and callousness: The impact of deliberative thought on donations to identifiable and statistical victims
  by Small, Deborah A. & Loewenstein, George & Slovic, Paul
• Strategies for Promoting Healthier Food Choices
  by Julie S. Downs & George Loewenstein & Jessica Wisdom
• Misperceiving the value of information in predicting the performance of others
  by George Loewenstein & Don Moore & Roberto Weber
• The ostrich effect: Selective attention to information
  by Niklas Karlsson & George Loewenstein & Duane Seppi
• The Economics of Meaning
  by Niklas Karlsson & George Loewenstein & Jane McCafferty
• The Limits of Transparency: Pitfalls and Potential of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
  by George Loewenstein & Daylian M. Cain & Sunita Sah
• The tree of experience in the forest of information: Overweighing experienced relative to observed information
  by Simonsohn, Uri & Karlsson, Niklas & Loewenstein, George & Ariely, Dan
• Value measurement in cost-utility analysis: explaining the discrepancy between rating scale and person trade-off elicitations
  by Ubel, Peter A. & Loewenstein, George & Scanlon, Dennis & Kamlet, Mark
• Behind the veil of ignorance: Self-serving bias in climate change negotiations
  by Peter H. Kriss & George Loewenstein & Xianghong Wang & Roberto A. Weber
• Informative inducement: Study payment as a signal of risk
  by Cryder, Cynthia E. & John London, Alex & Volpp, Kevin G. & Loewenstein, George
• Altered states: The impact of immediate craving on the valuation of current and future opioids
  by Badger, Gary J. & Bickel, Warren K. & Giordano, Louis A. & Jacobs, Eric A. & Loewenstein, George & Marsch, Lisa
• It must be awful for them: Healthy people overlook disease variability in quality of life judgments.
  by Heather P. Lacey & Angela Fagerlin & George Loewenstein & Dylan M. Smith & Jason Riis & Peter A. Ubel
• Myopic risk-seeking: The impact of narrow decision bracketing on lottery play
  by Emily Haisley & Romel Mostafa & George Loewenstein
• The illusion of courage in social predictions: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on other people
  by Van Boven, Leaf & Loewenstein, George & Dunning, David
• Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
  by Loewenstein, George & O'Donoghue, Ted & Rabin, Matthew
• After Adversity Strikes: Predictions, Recollections and Reality Among People Experiencing the Onset of Adverse Circumstances
  by Yvette Peeters & Dylan Smith & George Loewenstein & Peter Ubel
• The donor is in the details
  by Cryder, Cynthia E. & Loewenstein, George & Scheines, Richard
• Consumers’ misunderstanding of health insurance
  by 12 authorsLoewenstein, George & Friedman, Joelle Y. & McGill, Barbara & Ahmad, Sarah & Linck, Suzanne & Sinkula, Stacey & Beshears, John & Choi, James J. & Kolstad, Jonathan & Laibson, David & Madrian, Brigitte C. & List, John A. & Volpp, Kevin G.
• What Is Privacy Worth?
  by Alessandro Acquisti & Leslie K. John & George Loewenstein
• Disclosure: Psychology Changes Everything
  by George Loewenstein & Cass R. Sunstein & Russell Golman
• Large Stakes and Big Mistakes
  by Dan Ariely & Uri Gneezy & George Loewenstein & Nina Mazar
• Lenders’ blind trust and borrowers’ blind spots: A descriptive investigation of personal loans
  by Dezső, Linda & Loewenstein, George
• Cheating more for less: Upward social comparisons motivate the poorly compensated to cheat
  by John, Leslie K. & Loewenstein, George & Rick, Scott I.
• Intertemporal Choice - Toward an Integrative Framework
  by Berns, Gregory S. & Loewenstein, George & Laibson, David I.
• Do Individuals Make Sensible Health Insurance Decisions? Evidence from a Menu with Dominated Options
  by Saurabh Bhargava & George Loewenstein & Justin Sydnor
• Strangers on a Plane: Context-Dependent Willingness to Divulge Sensitive Information
  by Leslie K. John & Alessandro Acquisti & George Loewenstein
• Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Consumer Self-Control.
  by Hoch, Stephen J. & Loewenstein, George F.
• Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
  by George Loewenstein & Ted O'Donoghue & Matthew Rabin
• The pernicious role of asymmetric history in negotiations
  by Dezső, Linda & Loewenstein, George & Steinhart, Jonathan & Neszveda, Gábor & Szászi, Barnabás
• Slow Down! Insensitivity to Rate of Consumption Leads to Avoidable Satiation
  by Jeff Galak & Justin Kruger & George Loewenstein
• Habit formation in children: Evidence from incentives for healthy eating
  by Loewenstein, George & Price, Joseph & Volpp, Kevin
• Relative Pay and Labor Supply
  by Anat Bracha & Uri Gneezy & George Loewenstein
• Tightwads and Spendthrifts
  by Scott I. Rick & Cynthia E. Cryder & George Loewenstein
• The Effect of Ownership History on the Valuation of Objects.
  by Strahilevitz, Michal A. & Loewenstein, George
• Underpredicting Learning after Initial Experience with a Product
  by Darron Billeter & Ajay Kalra & George Loewenstein
• Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time
  by Colin Camerer & Linda Babcock & George Loewenstein & Richard Thaler
• Helping Consumers Use Nutrition Information: Effects of Format and Presentation
  by Julie S. Downs & Jessica Wisdom & George Loewenstein
• The under-appreciated drive for sense-making
  by Chater, Nick & Loewenstein, George
• The Creative Destruction of Decision Research.
  by Loewenstein, George
• "Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences
  by Dan Ariely & George Loewenstein & Drazen Prelec
• Consumers’ Misunderstanding of Health Insurance
  by 12 authorsLoewenstein, George & Friedman, Joelle Y. & McGill, Barbara & Ahmad, Sarah & Linck, Suzanne & Sinkula, Stacey & Beshears, John Leonard & Choi, James J. & Kolstad, Jonathan & Laibson, David I. & Madrian, Brigitte & List, John A. & Volpp, Kevin G.
• Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation
  by George Loewenstein & Drazen Prelec
• Conflicted advice and second opinions: Benefits, but unintended consequences
  by Sah, Sunita & Loewenstein, George
• Comparing the effectiveness of individualistic, altruistic, and competitive incentives in motivating completion of mental exercises
  by Schofield, Heather & Loewenstein, George & Kopsic, Jessica & Volpp, Kevin G.
• Choosing the Wrong Pond: Social Comparisons in Negotiations That Reflect a Self-Serving Bias
  by Linda Babcock & Xianghong Wang & George Loewenstein
• Behavioral Economics and Public Policy 102: Beyond Nudging
  by Saurabh Bhargava & George Loewenstein
• Does Increased Sexual Frequency Enhance Happiness?
  by Loewenstein, George & Krishnamurti, Tamar & Kopsic, Jessica & McDonald, Daniel
• When Sunlight Fails to Disinfect: Understanding the Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest
  by Daylian M. Cain & George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore
• Editor's Choice Financial Attention
  by Nachum Sicherman & George Loewenstein & Duane J. Seppi & Stephen P. Utkus
• The Preference for Belief Consonance
  by Russell Golman & George Loewenstein & Karl Ove Moene & Luca Zarri
• Consumers Misunderstanding of Health Insurance
  by 11 authorsSarah Ahmed & John Beshears & James Choi & Joelle Friedman & Jonathan Kolstad & Suzanne Linck & John List & George Loewenstein & Brigitte Madrain & Barbara McGill & Stacey Sinkula & Kevin Volpp
• Information Avoidance
  by Russell Golman & David Hagmann & George Loewenstein
• Self-serving invocations of shared and asymmetric history in negotiations
  by Linda Dezsö & George Loewenstein
• Self-serving invocations of shared and asymmetric history in negotiations
  by Dezső, Linda & Loewenstein, George
• Neuroeconomics: How neuroscience can inform economics.
  by Colin Camerer & George Loewenstein & Drazen Prelec
• Putting nudges in perspective
  by LOEWENSTEIN, GEORGE & CHATER, NICK
• Heterogeneous effects of peer tutoring: Evidence from rural Chinese middle schools
  by Song, Yang & Loewenstein, George & Shi, Yaojiang
• Is Altruism Sensitive to Scope? The Role of Tangibility
  by Alex Imas & George Loewenstein
• When and why randomized response techniques (fail to) elicit the truth
  by John, Leslie K. & Loewenstein, George & Acquisti, Alessandro & Vosgerau, Joachim
• Because It Is There: The Challenge of Mountaineering… for Utility Theory
  by George Loewenstein
• An unhealthy attitude? New insight into the modest effects of the NLEA
  by Mark Patterson & Saurabh Bhargava & George Loewenstein
• Identifying Emotions on the Basis of Neural Activation
  by Karim S. Kassam & Amanda R. Markey & Vladimir L. Cherkassky & George Loewenstein & Marcel Adam Just
• Choose to Lose: Health Plan Choices from a Menu with Dominated Option
  by Saurabh Bhargava & George Loewenstein & Justin Sydnor
• Supplementing menu labeling with calorie recommendations to test for facilitation effects
  by Downs, J. S. & Wisdom, J. & Wansink, B. & Loewenstein, G.
• Aggressive Economic Incentives and Physical Activity: The Role of Choice and Technology Decision Aids
  by Idris Adjerid & Rachael Purta & Aaron Striegel & George Loewenstein
• Helping Consumers Use Nutrition Information: Effects of Format and Presentation
  by Julie S. Downs & Jessica Wisdom & George Loewenstein