2018EconometricaOpen access

Eliciting Temptation and Self-Control Through Menu Choices: A Lab Experiment

Séverine Toussaert

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This is a lab experiment studying whether people might want to avoid temptation not because they expect to succumb to it but because they want to avoid the self-control costs of resisting it.

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This is a lab experiment studying whether people might want to avoid temptation not because they expect to succumb to it but because they want to avoid the self-control costs of resisting it.

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This is a lab experiment studying whether people might want to avoid temptation not because they expect to succumb to it but because they want to avoid the self-control costs of resisting it.

Key concepts: Temptation, Self-control, Psychology, Control (management), Social psychology, Economics, Management

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