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Can behavioural economics make us healthier?George Loewenstein
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
BMJ 344:e3482. 2012Behavioural economics is becoming increasingly popular as a way to improve public health. George Loewenstein and colleagues point out some of the pitfalls and warn that it cannot be used as a substitute for conventional policies to tackle ..
A test of financial incentives to improve warfarin adherenceKevin G Volpp
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 8:272. 2008..Novel methods are needed to improve adherence for warfarin. We conducted two pilot studies to determine whether a lottery-based daily financial incentive is feasible and improves warfarin adherence and anticoagulation control...
Risk as feelingsG F Loewenstein
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 3890, USA
Psychol Bull 127:267-86. 2001..When such divergence occurs, emotional reactions often drive behavior. The risk-as-feelings hypothesis is shown to explain a wide range of phenomena that have resisted interpretation in cognitive-consequentialist terms...- Projection bias in medical decision makingGeorge Loewenstein
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Med Decis Making 25:96-105. 2005 - Social science. The pleasures and pains of informationGeorge Loewenstein
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Science 312:704-6. 2006 - NeuroeconomicsGeorge Loewenstein
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 59:647-72. 2008..In addition to reviewing new economic models inspired by this research, we also discuss how neuroeconomics may influence future work in psychology... - Asymmetric paternalism to improve health behaviorsGeorge Loewenstein
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890, USA
JAMA 298:2415-7. 2007 - Hot-cold empathy gaps and medical decision makingGeorge Loewenstein
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Health Psychol 24:S49-56. 2005.... - Exploring the cold-to-hot empathy gap in smokersMichael A Sayette
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 3137 Sennott Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Psychol Sci 19:926-32. 2008..Results support the existence of a cold-to-hot empathy gap in smokers and help to explain diverse aspects of tobacco addiction... - A social science perspective on gifts to physicians from industryJason Dana
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
JAMA 290:252-5. 2003 - Bias in the evaluation of conflict of interest policiesZachariah Sharek
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
J Law Med Ethics 40:368-82. 2012..This suggests a bias against COI policies by those who will be directly affected... - Financial incentives for extended weight loss: a randomized, controlled trialLeslie K John
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 208 Porter Hall, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:621-6. 2011..Previous efforts to use incentives for weight loss have resulted in substantial weight regain after 16 weeks... - Heart strings and purse strings: Carryover effects of emotions on economic decisionsJennifer S Lerner
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 15:337-41. 2004..The results demonstrate that incidental emotions can influence decisions even when real money is at stake, and that emotions of the same valence can have opposing effects on such decisions... - The partner-specific sexual liking and sexual wanting scale: psychometric propertiesTamar Krishnamurti
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Arch Sex Behav 41:467-76. 2012..06. Data from these three studies suggested that PSSLW were distinct, measurable, and valid constructs that have the potential to enrich future studies of sexual experience and behavior within sexual partnerships... - Effects of smoking urge on temporal cognitionMichael A Sayette
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 19:88-93. 2005..Results suggest that smoking urge may affect time perception and that craving smokers overpredict the duration and intensity of their own future smoking urges if they abstain... - Effect of reminders of personal sacrifice and suggested rationalizations on residents' self-reported willingness to accept gifts: a randomized trialSunita Sah
Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
JAMA 304:1204-11. 2010..Despite expanding research on the prevalence and consequences of conflicts of interest in medicine, little attention has been given to the psychological processes that enable physicians to rationalize the acceptance of gifts... - Quality of death: assessing the importance placed on end-of-life treatment in the intensive-care unitCindy L Bryce
Department of Medicine, Modeling of Acute Illness CRISMA Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Med Care 42:423-31. 2004..This issue is particularly problematic in the intensive-care unit (ICU) where death is frequent, care is difficult, and costs are high... - The dark side of emotion in decision-making: when individuals with decreased emotional reactions make more advantageous decisionsBaba Shiv
Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23:85-92. 2005.... - Social projection of transient drive statesLeaf Van Boven
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309 0345, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:1159-68. 2003..Furthermore, participants' predictions of how they would feel in the hikers' situation statistically mediated the effect of exercise on their predictions of the hikers' feelings... - Neuroeconomics: cross-currents in research on decision-makingAlan G Sanfey
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 10:108-16. 2006..The integration of these disparate theoretical approaches and methodologies offers exciting potential for the construction of more accurate models of decision-making... - Neural predictors of purchasesBrian Knutson
Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University, Building 420, Jordan Hall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuron 53:147-56. 2007..These findings suggest that activation of distinct neural circuits related to anticipatory affect precedes and supports consumers' purchasing decisions... - Investment behavior and the negative side of emotionBaba Shiv
Stanford University, CA 94305 5015, USA
Psychol Sci 16:435-9. 2005.... - Separate neural systems value immediate and delayed monetary rewardsSamuel M McClure
Department of Psychology and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Science 306:503-7. 2004..Furthermore, the relative engagement of the two systems is directly associated with subjects' choices, with greater relative fronto-parietal activity when subjects choose longer term options... - Misimagining the unimaginable: the disability paradox and health care decision makingPeter A Ubel
Program for Improving Health Care Decisions, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0429, USA
Health Psychol 24:S57-62. 2005..On balance, the available evidence suggests that, whereas patients misreport their well-being, healthy people also mispredict the emotional impact that chronic illness and disability will have on their lives... - Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general publicPeter A Ubel
VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Qual Life Res 12:599-607. 2003..Decisions about whose values to measure for the purposes of economic analyses, and how to measure discrepancies, should take these potential contributing factors into account... - Disability and sunshine: can hedonic predictions be improved by drawing attention to focusing illusions or emotional adaptation?Peter A Ubel
Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0429, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 11:111-23. 2005.... - Effect of assessment method on the discrepancy between judgments of health disorders people have and do not have: a web studyJonathan Baron
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6196, USA
Med Decis Making 23:422-34. 2003..The discrepancy varied in size and direction across disorders. Subjects also thought that they would be less affected than others... - Ignorance of hedonic adaptation to hemodialysis: a study using ecological momentary assessmentJason Riis
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, MI, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 134:3-9. 2005..This relative negativity in controls' estimates of their own moods could also contribute to their underestimation of the moods and overall well-being of patients... - Neural antecedents of the endowment effectBrian Knutson
Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuron 58:814-22. 2008..These findings are consistent with a reference-dependent account in which ownership increases value by enhancing the salience of the possible loss of preferred products... - Intertemporal choice--toward an integrative frameworkGregory S Berns
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:482-8. 2007..We review and integrate these advances. We emphasize three different, occasionally competing, mechanisms that are implemented in the brain: representation, anticipation and self-control... - Time discounting for primary rewardsSamuel M McClure
Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
J Neurosci 27:5796-804. 2007..We discuss implications of this finding for differences between primary and secondary rewards... - Altered states: the impact of immediate craving on the valuation of current and future opioidsGary J Badger
Biometry Facility, University of Vermont, VT, USA
J Health Econ 26:865-76. 2007..Under-appreciation of craving by non-addicts may contribute to initial decisions to experiment with drugs...