Temptation and Related Concepts

诱惑及相关概念

• 批准号: 0518958
• 负责人: Barton Lipman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0518958&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Temptation; Related; Concepts

The award will fund research in microeconomic theory. This research completes earlier work by the PI on the subject of temptation and self-control and extends it in important new directions. The two main new directions are to consider guilt/virtuousness and nonlinear effects of temptation. Guilt, disutility associated with succumbing to temptation, is a natural issue in the context of temptation but has not been previously formalized. Virtuousness refers to the mirror image of guilt, feelings of pride in resisting temptation. The nonlinear effects to be considered concern situations where the level of temptation has a signi.cant e.ect on whether temptation is relevant to the agent. For example, perhaps a low level of temptation is entirely ignored, while a moderate degree of temptation entirely changes the choice problem as perceived by the decision maker.Finally, the PI will use the tools developed in this context in new directions. First, adapting the model to multiple agents gives a way of thinking about the value of control rights and how agents view one another. In particular, this gives a naturallanguage for considering altruism where, for example, a father may prefer letting his son make his own decisions. Second, the model lends itself naturally to considering other reasons why larger choice sets may be worse such a computational costs in choosing from a menu or regrets associated with not choosing "correctly" from the menu.Broader impacts include funding graduate student research. Many of the directions proposed lead to research outside the traditional boundaries of economics and, consequently, may lead to fruitful interdisciplinary work. For example, it is natural to seek input from and collaboration with psychologists in considering such topics as guilt.

该奖项将资助微观经济学理论的研究。这项研究完成了PI在诱惑和自我控制主题上的早期工作，并将其扩展到重要的新方向。两个主要的新方向是考虑罪恶/美德和诱惑的非线性效应。内疚感，与屈服于诱惑相关的负效用，在诱惑的背景下是一个自然的问题，但以前没有正式确定。美德指的是内疚的镜像，是抵制诱惑的自豪感。要考虑的非线性效应涉及诱惑水平对诱惑是否与代理人相关有显著影响的情况。例如，也许低水平的诱惑完全被忽略，而中等程度的诱惑完全改变了决策者所感知的选择问题。最后，PI将在新的方向上使用在此背景下开发的工具。首先，将模型适应于多个代理提供了一种思考控制权价值和代理如何看待彼此的方法。特别是，这为考虑利他主义提供了一种自然的语言，例如，父亲可能更愿意让儿子自己做决定。其次，该模型自然地考虑了其他原因，为什么更大的选择集可能更糟糕，比如从菜单中选择的计算成本，或者从菜单中没有“正确”选择的遗憾。更广泛的影响包括资助研究生的研究。提出的许多方向将导致经济学传统边界之外的研究，因此可能导致卓有成效的跨学科工作。例如，在考虑诸如内疚之类的话题时，寻求心理学家的输入和合作是很自然的。