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The Construction of Preference

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  • 62 tables
  • Page extent: 808 pages
  • Size: 234 x 156 mm
  • Weight: 1.092 kg

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 (ISBN-13: 9780521542203 | ISBN-10: 0521542200)




Contents

    Contributors page xi
    Preface xv
      Cass R. Sunstein  
    Acknowledgments xvii
I  INTRODUCTION  
1   The Construction of Preference: An Overview 1
    Sarah Lichtenstein and Paul Slovic  
II  PREFERENCE REVERSALS  
2   Relative Importance of Probabilities and Payoffs in Risk Taking 41
    Paul Slovic and Sarah Lichtenstein  
3   Reversals of Preference Between Bids and Choices in Gambling Decisions 52
    Sarah Lichtenstein and Paul Slovic  
4   Response-Induced Reversals of Preference in Gambling: An Extended Replication in Las Vegas 69
    Sarah Lichtenstein and Paul Slovic  
5   Economic Theory of Choice and the Preference Reversal Phenomenon 77
    David M. Grether and Charles R. Plott  
III  PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF PREFERENCE REVERSALS  
6   Contingent Weighting in Judgment and Choice 95
    Amos Tversky, Samuel Sattath, and Paul Slovic  
7   Cognitive Processes in Preference Reversals 122
    David A. Schkade and Eric J. Johnson  
8   The Causes of Preference Reversal 146
    Amos Tversky, Paul Slovic, and Daniel Kahneman  
9   Preference Reversals Between Joint and Separate Evaluations of Options: A Review and Theoretical Analysis 163
    Christopher K. Hsee, George Loewenstein, Sally Blount, and Max H. Bazerman  
10   Attribute-Task Compatibility as a Determinant of Consumer Preference Reversals 192
    Stephen M. Nowlis and Itamar Simonson  
11   Preferences Constructed From Dynamic Microprocessing Mechanisms 220
    Jerome R. Busemeyer, Joseph G. Johnson, and Ryan K. Jessup  
IV  EVIDENCE FOR PREFERENCE CONSTRUCTION  
12   Construction of Preferences by Constraint Satisfaction 235
    Dan Simon, Daniel C. Krawczyk, and Keith J. Holyoak  
13   “Coherent Arbitrariness”: Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences 246
    Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec  
14   Tom Sawyer and the Construction of Value 271
    Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein, and Drazen Prelec  
15   When Web Pages Influence Choice: Effects of Visual Primes on Experts and Novices 282
    Naomi Mandel and Eric J. Johnson  
16   When Choice Is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing? 300
    Sheena S. Iyengar and Mark R. Lepper  
V  THEORIES OF PREFERENCE CONSTRUCTION  
17   Constructive Consumer Choice Processes 323
    James R. Bettman, Mary Frances Luce, and John W. Payne  
18   Decision Making and Action: The Search for a Dominance Structure 342
    Henry Montgomery  
19   Pre- and Post-Decision Construction of Preferences: Differentiation and Consolidation 356
    Ola Svenson  
20   Choice Bracketing 372
    Daniel Read, George Loewenstein, and Matthew Rabin  
21   Constructing Preferences From Memory 397
    Elke U. Weber and Eric J. Johnson  
VI  AFFECT AND REASON  
22   Reason-Based Choice 411
    Eldar Shafir, Itamar Simonson, and Amos Tversky  
23   The Affect Heuristic 434
    Paul Slovic, Melissa L. Finucane, Ellen Peters, and Donald G. MacGregor  
24   The Functions of Affect in the Construction of Preferences 454
    Ellen Peters  
25   Mere Exposure: A Gateway to the Subliminal 464
    Robert B. Zajonc  
26   Introspecting About Reasons Can Reduce Post-Choice Satisfaction 471
    Timothy D. Wilson, Douglas J. Lisle, Jonathan W. Schooler, Sara D. Hodges, Kristen J. Klaaren, and Suzanne J. LaFleur  
VII  MISWANTING  
27   New Challenges to the Rationality Assumption 487
    Daniel Kahneman  
28   Distinction Bias: Misprediction and Mischoice Due to Joint Evaluation 504
    Christopher K. Hsee and Jiao Zhang  
29   Lay Rationalism and Inconsistency Between Predicted Experience and Decision 532
    Christopher K. Hsee, Jiao Zhang, Frank Yu, and Yiheng Xi  
30   Miswanting: Some Problems in the Forecasting of Future Affective States 550
    Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson  
VIII  CONTINGENT VALUATION  
31   Economic Preferences or Attitude Expressions? An Analysis of Dollar Responses to Public Issues  
    Daniel Kahneman, Ilana Ritov, and David A. Schkade  
32   Music, Pandas, and Muggers: On the Affective Psychology of Value 594
    Christopher K. Hsee and Yuval Rottenstreich  
33   Valuing Environmental Resources: A Constructive Approach 609
    Robin Gregory, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Paul Slovic  
IX  PREFERENCE MANAGEMENT  
34   Measuring Constructed Preferences: Towards a Building Code 629
    John W. Payne, James R. Bettman, and David A. Schkade  
35   Constructing Preferences From Labile Values 653
    Baruch Fischhoff  
36   Informed Consent and the Construction of Values 668
    Douglas MacLean  
37   Do Defaults Save Lives? 682
    Eric J. Johnson and Daniel G. Goldstein  
38   Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron 689
    Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler  
    References 709
    Index 775

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