We review the recent evidence on commitment devices and discuss how this evidence
relates to theoretical questions about the demand for, and effectiveness of, commitment …

A full range of psychological processes has been put into play to explain judgment and
choice phenomena. Complementing work on attention, information integration, and learning …

We review research that measures time preferences—ie, preferences over intertemporal
trade—offs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call “money …

In the years since it first published, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain has
become the standard reference and textbook in the burgeoning field of neuroeconomics …

Intertemporal tradeoffs play a key role in many personal decisions and policy questions. We
describe models of intertemporal choice, identify empirical regularities in choice, and pose …

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We
examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

Intertemporal choices are decisions with consequences that play out over time. These
choices range from the prosaic–how much food to eat at a meal–to life-changing decisions …

In 3 studies, participants made choices between hypothetical financial, environmental, and
health gains and losses that took effect either immediately or with a delay of 1 or 10 years. In …

Neuroeconomics has further bridged the once disparate fields of economics and
psychology. Such convergence is almost exclusively attributable to changes within …