Preference Reversals Due to Myopic Discounting of Delayed Reward
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 6 (2), 83-89
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1995.tb00311.x
Abstract
A basic stationarity axiom of economic theory assumes stable preference between two deferred goods separated by a fixed time To test this assumption, we offered subjects choices between delayed rewards, while manipulating the delays to those rewards Preferences typically reversed with changes in delay, as predicted by hyperbolic discounting models of impulsiveness Of 36 subjects, 34 reversed preference from a larger, later reward to a smaller, earlier reward as the delays to both rewards decreased We conclude that the stationarity axiom is not appropriate in models of human choiceKeywords
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