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Weighting on waiting: Willpower and attribute weighting models of decision making
1Department of Psychological Science, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA91711. aharris@cmc.edu; http://www.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/AHarris.
Abstract:
Willpower is often conceptualized as incorporating effortful and momentary suppression of immediate but ultimately inferior rewards. Yet, growing evidence instead supports a process of attribute weighting, whereby normatively optimal choices arise from separable evaluation of different attributes (e.g., time and money). Strategic allocation of attention settles conflicts between competing choice-relevant attributes, which could be expanded to include self-referential predictions ("resolve").
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