| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges | |
| Emre Ozdenoren; Dan Silverman; Stephen W. Salant | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-07-06 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 页码 | DP 10-35 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Common intuition and experimental psychology suggest that the ability to self-regulate ("willpower") is a depletable resource. We investigate the behavior of an agent with limited willpower whooptimally consumes over time an endowment of a tempting and storable consumption good or "cake". We assume that restraining consumption below the most tempting feasible rate requires willpower. Any willpower not used to regulate consumption may be valuable in controlling other urges. Willpower thus links otherwise unrelated behaviors requiring self-control. An agent with limited willpower will display apparent domain-speci?c time preference. Such an agent will almost never perfectly smooth his consumption, even when it is feasible to do so. Whether the agent relaxes control of his consumption over time (as experimental psychologists predict) or tightens it (as most behavioral theories predict) depends in our model on the net e¤ect of two analytically distinct and opposing forces. |
| 主题 | Risk and Uncertainty |
| URL | http://www.rff.org/research/publications/willpower-and-optimal-control-visceral-urges |
| 来源智库 | Resources for the Future (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/41077 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Emre Ozdenoren,Dan Silverman,Stephen W. Salant. Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges. 2010. |
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