Risks deter but pleasures allure: Is pleasure more important?
The pursuit of unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking or binge drinking, not only carries various downside risks, but also provides pleasure. A parsimonious model, used in the literature to explain the decision to pursue an unhealthy activity, represents that decision as a tradeoff between risks and b...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/14/141118/jdm141118.pdf |