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Salant, Yuval; Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Almog, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We explore the role of memory for choice behavior in unfamiliar environments. Using a unique data set, we document that decision makers exhibit a "memory premium." They tend to choose in-memory alternatives over out-of-memory ones, even when the latter are objectively better. Consistent with...

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The behavioral genetics of behavioral anomalies

Cesarini, David; Johannesson, Magnus; Magnusson, Patrik … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 58 (2012) 1, pp. 21-34

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Chapter Three. The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 95-199). 2011

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...

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Neuroeconomics : a review of the influence of neurotransmitters on the behaviour and decision-making of individuals in economic matters

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Behavioral Genetics and Crime, in Context

Jones, Owen D. - 2008

This Article provides an introduction to some of the key issues at the intersection of behavioral genetics and crime … genetics can and cannot tell us about criminal behavior. It also discusses a variety of important implications (as well as … complexities) of attempting to use insights of behavioral genetics in legal contexts …

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