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George Loewenstein

Global rank #705 99%

Institution: Carnegie Mellon University

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.hss.cmu.edu/departments/sds/faculty/loewenstein.html

First Publication: 1989

Most Recent: 2022

RePEc ID: plo51 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.67 0.67 0.00 0.00 4.02
Last 10 Years 1.34 1.17 2.68 0.00 10.39
All Time 12.07 5.19 14.47 0.00 74.12

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 44
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 33.88

Publications (44)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2022 Fragile Self-Esteem Review of Economic Studies S 3
2021 Perspectives on Mental Accounting: An Exploration of Budgeting and Investing Journal of the European Economic Association A 3
2019 Self-serving invocations of shared and asymmetric history in negotiations European Economic Review B 2
2017 Choose to Lose: Health Plan Choices from a Menu with Dominated Option Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2016 The under-appreciated drive for sense-making Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2016 Habit formation in children: Evidence from incentives for healthy eating Journal of Health Economics B 3
2016 Editor's Choice Financial Attention The Review of Financial Studies A 4
2015 Behavioral Economics and Public Policy 102: Beyond Nudging American Economic Review S 2
2015 Relative Pay and Labor Supply Journal of Labor Economics A 3
2015 Does Increased Sexual Frequency Enhance Happiness? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2015 The pernicious role of asymmetric history in negotiations Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 5
2015 Comparing the effectiveness of individualistic, altruistic, and competitive incentives in motivating completion of mental exercises Journal of Health Economics B 4
2015 Helping Consumers Use Nutrition Information: Effects of Format and Presentation American Journal of Health Economics B 3
2013 Consumers’ misunderstanding of health insurance Journal of Health Economics B 13
2011 The Limits of Transparency: Pitfalls and Potential of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest American Economic Review S 3
2010 Self-Interest through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship American Economic Review S 3
2010 Promoting Healthy Choices: Information versus Convenience American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 3
2009 Large Stakes and Big Mistakes Review of Economic Studies S 4
2009 Strategies for Promoting Healthier Food Choices American Economic Review S 3
2009 The ostrich effect: Selective attention to information Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
2008 The tree of experience in the forest of information: Overweighing experienced relative to observed information Games and Economic Behavior B 4
2008 Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy Journal of Public Economics A 2
2008 Myopic risk-seeking: The impact of narrow decision bracketing on lottery play Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
2008 Conflicting motives in evaluations of sequences Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2007 Altered states: The impact of immediate craving on the valuation of current and future opioids Journal of Health Economics B 6
2006 Tom Sawyer and the construction of value Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2006 Misperceiving the value of information in predicting the performance of others Experimental Economics A 3
2004 Neuroeconomics: Why Economics Needs Brains Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 3
2003 Mispredicting the endowment effect:: Underestimation of owners' selling prices by buyer's agents Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2003 Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
2003 "Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Stable Preferences Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2003 Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2000 Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior American Economic Review S 1
1999 Because It Is There: The Challenge of Mountaineering… for Utility Theory Kyklos C 1
1999 Choice Bracketing. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 3
1997 Labor Supply of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time Quarterly Journal of Economics S 4
1997 Explaining the "Identifiable Victim Effect." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
1996 Choosing the Wrong Pond: Social Comparisons in Negotiations That Reflect a Self-Serving Bias Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
1995 The relationship between uncertainty, the contract zone, and efficiency in a bargaining experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
1992 Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
1991 Negative Time Preference. American Economic Review S 2
1991 Do Workers Prefer Increasing Wage Profiles? Journal of Labor Economics A 2
1990 Dynamic Processes in Risk Perception. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 2
1989 The Curse of Knowledge in Economic Settings: An Experimental Analysis. Journal of Political Economy S 3