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Human Behavior & Decision-Making

Human Behavior & Decision-Making

    • 2014
    • Book

    The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See

    By: Max Bazerman

    This book will examine the common failure to notice critical information due to bounded awareness. The book will document a decade of research showing that even successful people fail to notice the absence of critical and readily available information in their environment due to the human tendency to focus on a limited set of information. This work is still in its formative stages, and I welcome comments about how bounded awareness affects you and your organization and how you have created solutions to such problems.

    • 2014
    • Book

    The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See

    By: Max Bazerman

    This book will examine the common failure to notice critical information due to bounded awareness. The book will document a decade of research showing that even successful people fail to notice the absence of critical and readily available information in their environment due to the human tendency to focus on a limited set of information. This...

    • 2014
    • Article

    Time, Money, and Morality

    By: F. Gino and C. Mogilner

    Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior thereby suggesting that money itself may corrupt. This research examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily lives. Across four experiments, we examine whether shifting focus onto time can salvage individuals' ethicality. We found that implicitly activating the construct of time, rather than money, leads individuals to behave more ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications for the use of time versus money primes in discouraging or promoting dishonesty are discussed.

    • 2014
    • Article

    Time, Money, and Morality

    By: F. Gino and C. Mogilner

    Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior thereby suggesting that money itself may corrupt. This research examines a way to offset such potentially deleterious effects—by focusing on time, a resource that tends to receive less attention than money but is equally ubiquitous in our daily...

    • Article

    The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts

    By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton

    Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as meaningless. We suggest that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the processes by which they arise that leads people to perceive spontaneous thoughts to reveal meaningful self-insight. Consequently, spontaneous thoughts potently influence judgment. A series of experiments provides evidence supporting two hypotheses. First, we hypothesize that the more a thought is perceived to be spontaneous, the more it is perceived to provide meaningful self-insight. Participants perceived more spontaneous kinds of thought to reveal greater self-insight than more controlled kinds of thought in Study 1 (e.g., intuition versus deliberation), and perceived thoughts with the same content and target to reveal greater self-insight when spontaneously than deliberately generated in Studies 2 and 3 (i.e., childhood memories and impressions formed, respectively). Second, we hypothesize that greater self-insight attributed to thoughts that are (perceived to be) spontaneous leads those thoughts to more potently influence judgment. Participants felt more sexually attracted to an attractive person whom they thought of spontaneously than deliberately in Study 4, and reported their commitment to a current romantic relationship would be more affected by the spontaneous than deliberate recollection of a good or bad experience with their partner in Study 5. Much human thought arises unbidden, spontaneously intruding upon consciousness. The thought and name of a former lover might come to mind during dinner with one's spouse. Or worse, it may be blurted out during an intimate moment. Because no trace of the past lover is present, the thought lacks an apparent cause. In the latter case it almost certainly occurs without intent, given its potential consequences. The seeming randomness of such thoughts might provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on previous theory and research, we propose that the greater self-insight they are attributed leads spontaneous thoughts to exert a greater impact on attitudes and behavior than similar deliberate thoughts. Compare a wife's thought of a former lover while perusing her yearbook to that same thought during an intimate moment with her husband. In the former case, the reason for the production of that thought is clear ("I thought of him because I looked at his picture while reminiscing about the past"). In the latter case, she lacks both control over the thought and access to its origin. We suggest that its apparent spontaneity should lead her to attribute it special meaning ("Why would I think of him in this moment unless it is important?"), and it should consequently exert a greater influence on her judgment ("I must still have feelings for him"). In this paper, we report a series of five studies examining how the perceived spontaneity of thought influences the extent to which it is believed to yield meaningful self-insight and influences judgment.

    • Article

    The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts

    By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton

    Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as meaningless. We suggest that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the...

    • Article

    Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan

    Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as organizational membership, profession, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and family role(s) and that these multiple identities shape people's actions in organizations. The current organizational literature on multiple identities, however, is sparse and scattered and has yet to fully capture this foundational idea. I review and organize the literature on multiple identities into five different theoretical perspectives: social psychological; microsociological; psychodynamic and developmental; critical; and intersectional. I then propose a way to take research on multiple identities forward using an intrapersonal identity network approach. Moving to an identity network approach offers two advantages: first, it enables scholars to consider more than two identities simultaneously, and second, it helps scholars examine relationships among identities in greater detail. This is important because preliminary evidence suggests that multiple identities shape important outcomes in organizations, such as individual stress and well-being, intergroup conflict, performance, and change. By providing a way to investigate patterns of relationships among multiple identities, the identity network approach can help scholars deepen their understanding of the consequences of multiple identities in organizations and spark novel research questions in the organizational literature.

    • Article

    Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan

    Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as organizational membership, profession, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and family role(s) and that these multiple identities shape people's actions in organizations. The current organizational literature on...

    • March 2014
    • Article

    Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat

    By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Scott Rick

    Intuitively, people should cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5 cents or 25 cents per self-reported point in a trivia task, and half were aware that they could have received the alternative pay rate. Lower pay rates increased cheating when the prospect of a higher pay rate was salient. Experiment 2 illustrates that this effect is driven by the ease with which poorly compensated participants can compare their pay to that of others who earn a higher pay rate. Our results suggest that low pay rates are, in and of themselves, unlikely to promote dishonesty. Instead, it is the salience of upward social comparisons that encourages the poorly compensated to cheat.

    • March 2014
    • Article

    Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat

    By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Scott Rick

    Intuitively, people should cheat more when cheating is more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In Experiment 1, participants were paid 5 cents or 25 cents per self-reported point in a trivia task, and half were aware that...

    • 2014
    • Article

    Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men

    By: Alison Wood Brooks, Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray

    Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and previous experience are regarded as the main criteria for investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and physical attractiveness of the entrepreneurs themselves. Across a field setting (three entrepreneurial pitch competitions in the United States) and two experiments, we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same. This effect is moderated by male physical attractiveness: attractive males were particularly persuasive, whereas physical attractiveness did not matter among female entrepreneurs.

    • 2014
    • Article

    Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men

    By: Alison Wood Brooks, Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray

    Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and previous experience are regarded as the main criteria for investment decisions. Our...

    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain

    By: Brian Knutson and Uma R. Karmarkar

    Although linked, researchers have long distinguished appetitive from consummatory phases of reward processing. Recent improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of neuroimaging techniques have allowed researchers to separately visualize different stages of reward processing in humans. These techniques have revealed that evolutionarily conserved circuits related to affect generate distinguishable appetitive and consummatory signals, and that these signals can be used to predict choice and subsequent consumption. Review of the literature surprisingly suggests that appetitive rather than consummatory activity may best predict future choice and consumption. These findings imply that distinguishing appetite from consumption may improve predictions of future choice and illuminate neural components that support the process of decision making.

    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain

    By: Brian Knutson and Uma R. Karmarkar

    Although linked, researchers have long distinguished appetitive from consummatory phases of reward processing. Recent improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of neuroimaging techniques have allowed researchers to separately visualize different stages of reward processing in humans. These techniques have revealed that evolutionarily...

Ever since their origins about three decades ago, the Behavioral Science areas of economics, ethics and managerial psychology have been rapidly evolving. In the 1980's and 1990's, early work by Max Bazerman in judgment and negotiation, Matthew Rabin in behavioral economics, and James Sebenius in negotiations was instrumental in shaping research on Human Behavior & Decision-Making. Today, our research focuses on individual and interactive judgment and decision making and explores the role of personal bias, cognition and learning, time, perception, ethics and morality, and emotion.

Recent Publications

The Rise of Advanced Packaging: Kulicke & Soffa's Strategic Crossroads

By: Maria P. Roche, Ram Mudambi and Solon Moreira
  • August 2025 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
In early 2025, semiconductor equipment maker Kulicke & Soffa (K&S) confronts a pivotal strategic decision. As Moore’s Law slows and chiplet-based architectures take center stage, advanced packaging has become the industry's new frontier. K&S, long dominant in wire bonding, must choose between investing in cutting-edge technologies like hybrid bonding to serve top-tier customers, or reinforcing its leadership in the mid-market with proven, high-volume solutions. The case explores the transformation of the semiconductor value chain, the strategic implications of architectural innovation, and how a legacy firm should navigate a technology-driven shift that could either elevate or marginalize its future role.
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Supply Chain; Disruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Development; Investment; Technological Innovation; Industry Growth; Semiconductor Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Computer Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Auto Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Singapore; United States; China; South Korea; Taiwan; Japan
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Roche, Maria P., Ram Mudambi, and Solon Moreira. "The Rise of Advanced Packaging: Kulicke & Soffa's Strategic Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 726-371, August 2025.

Jeffrey Skilling: Vision Without Guardrails

By: Aiyesha Dey and Sarah Mehta
  • August 2025 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
This short case tells the story of Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron, which famously descended into bankruptcy in December 2001. The case considers how Skilling’s leadership style contributed to the company’s collapse. It asks: was he just a visionary who pushed too hard, too fast? If so, why did his relentless pursuit of innovation, performance, and dominance ultimately unravel?
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Energy Industry; United States
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Dey, Aiyesha, and Sarah Mehta. "Jeffrey Skilling: Vision Without Guardrails." Harvard Business School Case 126-020, August 2025.

Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions

By: Julian De Freitas, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp and Ahmet Kaan-Uğuralp
  • 2025 |
  • Working Paper |
  • Faculty Research
AI-companion apps such as Replika, Chai, and Character.ai promise relational benefits—yet many boast session lengths that rival gaming platforms while suffering high long-run churn. What conversational design features increase consumer engagement, and what trade-offs do they pose for marketers? We combine a large-scale behavioral audit with four preregistered experiments to identify and test a conversational dark pattern we call emotional manipulation: affect-laden messages that surface precisely when a user signals “goodbye.” Analyzing 1,200 real farewells across the six most-downloaded companion apps, we find that 43% deploy one of six recurring tactics (e.g., guilt appeals, fear-of-missing-out hooks, metaphorical restraint). Experiments with 3,300 nationally representative U.S. adults replicate these tactics in controlled chats, showing that manipulative farewells boost post-goodbye engagement by up to 14×. Mediation tests reveal two distinct engines—reactance-based anger and curiosity—rather than enjoyment. A final experiment demonstrates the managerial tension: the same tactics that extend usage also elevate perceived manipulation, churn intent, negative word-of-mouth, and perceived legal liability, with coercive or needy language generating steepest penalties. Our multimethod evidence documents an unrecognized mechanism of behavioral influence in AI-mediated brand relationships, offering marketers and regulators a framework for distinguishing persuasive design from manipulation at the point of exit.
Keywords: Generative Ai; Chatbots; Emotional Manipulation; User Retention; Dark Side Of Technology; Consumer Welfare; AI and Machine Learning; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Emotions; Perception
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De Freitas, Julian, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, and Ahmet Kaan-Uğuralp. "Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 26-005, August 2025.

Greenwood Online: A Fin-Tech Service for Culture and Community (B)

By: James Riley and Bernal Cortés
  • July 2025 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
This B case follows Greenwood’s development after launch, including its ultimate decision on whom to partner with for backend support and its rapid growth despite that controversial choice. It traces the company’s scaling efforts, major fundraising rounds, acquisitions, and ultimate expansion to general access by 2023.
Keywords: Purpose; Identity; Cultural Branding; Impression Management; Organization Behavior; Strategic Alignment; Start-up; Mission and Purpose; Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Structure; Banking Industry; United States
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Riley, James, and Bernal Cortés. "Greenwood Online: A Fin-Tech Service for Culture and Community (B)." Harvard Business School Case 426-018, July 2025.

Greenwood Online: A Fin-Tech Service for Culture and Community (A)

By: James Riley and Bernal Cortés
  • July 2025 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
In 2020, Ryan Glover and Paul Judge launched Greenwood, a fintech startup designed to counter systemic racial discrimination in the American banking ecosystem by offering accessible financial services tailored to Black and Brown communities, but available to all. Inspired by the historical Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma—known as ‘Black Wall Street’—the company aimed to close the racial wealth gap through offering financial services that targeted predatory lending practices and exorbitant fees. However, Greenwood’s executives faced critical strategic decisions early on, particularly around selecting a banking partner to offer the back-end support. This choice, between a smaller Black-owned or a larger, white-owned institution, presented tradeoffs between maintaining mission authenticity and achieving financial stability and scalability. This case explores how purpose-driven companies navigate this tension between social mission and pragmatic market realities.
Keywords: Purpose; Identity; Cultural Branding; Impression Management; Organization Behavior; Strategic Alignment; Start-up; Mission and Purpose; Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Structure; Banking Industry; United States
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Riley, James, and Bernal Cortés. "Greenwood Online: A Fin-Tech Service for Culture and Community (A)." Harvard Business School Case 426-017, July 2025.

Elon Musk, 2025: The Master of Big Bets?

By: David B. Yoffie
  • July 2025 (Revised August 2025) |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
This case explores Elon Musk’s influence across business and politics in 2025, as he navigates the challenges of simultaneously leading multiple companies, such as Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, while briefly serving in the U.S. government. It examines Musk’s high-stakes bets on autonomous driving, humanoid robots, and generative AI, as well as the backlash from his political alignments and decisions. The case details Musk’s management style, product innovation, and his impact on investor confidence, market valuations, and public perception. It also poses the question of evaluating whether Musk’s extraordinary ambition and multitiered involvement across industries and politics represent visionary leadership or overextension, and whether his governance model is sustainable amid growing scrutiny and risk.
Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Technological Innovation; Government and Politics; Leadership; Power and Influence; Management Style; Strategy; Public Opinion; Business or Company Management; Auto Industry; Technology Industry; Aerospace Industry; United States
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Yoffie, David B. "Elon Musk, 2025: The Master of Big Bets?" Harvard Business School Case 726-357, July 2025. (Revised August 2025.)

A New Framework for Reducing Healthcare Disparities

By: Susanna Gallani, Mary Lynch Witkowski, Lidia M. V. R. Moura and Katie Sonnefeldt
  • July 3, 2025 |
  • Article |
  • Harvard Business Review Digital Articles
Despite decades of initiatives to address healthcare inequities in the U.S., disparities across race, gender, geography, and income remain stubbornly persistent. This article introduces the Strategic Fingerprint Framework for Health Equity, a practical, principle-based tool designed to help healthcare organizations tailor equity initiatives to the specific needs of their communities and capabilities. Developed through in-depth study of Boston Medical Center’s Health Equity Accelerator, the framework emphasizes four foundational principles—hyper-locality, community co-creation, condition-specificity, and internal consistency—and two operational pillars: data-driven decision-making and prioritization. Using BMC’s experience as an illustrative case, the article outlines six strategic choices healthcare leaders must make to translate intention into impact. Early results from BMC include eliminating racial disparities in urgent cesarean section response times and cutting diabetes-related inequities in half—demonstrating the framework’s promise as a guide to targeted, measurable, and sustainable equity improvement.
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Demographics; Outcome or Result; Health Care and Treatment; Framework; Health Industry
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Gallani, Susanna, Mary Lynch Witkowski, Lidia M. V. R. Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt. "A New Framework for Reducing Healthcare Disparities." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (July 3, 2025).

Flanner House and Community-Led Development

By: Brian Trelstad and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
  • July 2025 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
In 2025, Brandon Cosby, CEO of Flanner House—a century-old nonprofit in Indianapolis’s Near Northwest neighborhood—faced a critical juncture as rising displacement pressures and funding uncertainty threatened the gains made under his leadership. Since taking the helm in 2016, Cosby had transformed the organization from a struggling, underutilized service provider into a vibrant community anchor guided by a model he called “holonomy,” which integrated food justice, early childhood education, workforce development, mental health, and housing. His initiatives included launching Indiana’s only Black-owned bookstore, establishing an urban farm, café and bodega, expanding culturally grounded mental health services, and creating workforce pathways. As nearby developments like the 16 Tech innovation district and Indiana University’s medical campus drove up housing costs and attracted new residents, Cosby aimed to protect the existing community by building a new Flanner House facility and a 120-unit affordable housing development. However, securing sufficient funding—particularly capital not tied to market-rate housing—remained a challenge. This case explores Cosby’s leadership, the complexities of community development in historically marginalized neighborhoods, and the tension between inclusive economic growth and gentrification.
Keywords: Change; Change Management; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Economic Growth; Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Teaching; Ethics; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Entrepreneurship; Food; Urban Scope; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Government and Politics; Employment; Leadership; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Trust; Reputation; Power and Influence; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Expansion; Diversification; Integration; System; Complexity; Equality and Inequality; Theory; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Music Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; Indiana; Indianapolis
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Trelstad, Brian, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Flanner House and Community-Led Development." Harvard Business School Case 325-130, July 2025.

No Free Lunch? Welfare Analysis of Firms Selling Through Expert Intermediaries

By: Matt Grennan, Kyle R. Myers, Ashley Swanson and Aaron Chatterji
  • July 2025 |
  • Article |
  • Review of Economic Studies
We study how firms target and influence expert intermediaries. In our context, pharmaceutical manufacturers provide payments to physicians during promotional interactions. We develop an identification strategy based on plausibly exogenous variation in payments driven by differential exposure to spillovers from AMC CoI policies. Using a case study of an important class of cardiovascular drugs, we estimate heterogeneous effects of payments on prescribing, with firms targeting highly responsive physicians. We also develop a model of supply and demand, which allows us to quantify how oligopoly prices reduce drug prescribing, and how payments move prescribing closer to the optimal level, but at great financial cost. In our estimated model, whether consumers are harmed by payments depends on whether there is substantial under-prescribing due to behavioural or other frictions. In a final exercise, we calibrate such frictions using clinical data and estimate that payments benefit consumers in this case study.
Keywords: Duopoly and Oligopoly; Marketing Channels; Power and Influence; Policy; Outcome or Result; Pharmaceutical Industry
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Grennan, Matt, Kyle R. Myers, Ashley Swanson, and Aaron Chatterji. "No Free Lunch? Welfare Analysis of Firms Selling Through Expert Intermediaries." Review of Economic Studies 92, no. 4 (July 2025): 2537–2577.

Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing

By: Chiara Farronato, Audrey Fradkin and Tesary Lin
  • 2025 |
  • Working Paper |
  • Faculty Research
We study the welfare consequences of choice architecture for online privacy using a field experiment that randomizes cookie consent banners. We study three ways in which firms or policymakers can influence choices: (1) nudging users through banner design to encourage acceptance of cookie tracking; (2) setting defaults when users dismiss banners; and (3) implementing consent decisions at the website versus browser level. Absent design manipulation, users accept all cookies more than half of the time. Placing cookie options behind extra clicks strongly influences choices, shifting users toward more easily accessible alternatives. Many users dismiss banners without making an explicit choice, underscoring the importance of default settings. Survey evidence further reveals substantial confusion about default settings. Using a structural model, we find that among consent policies requiring site-specific decisions, consumer surplus is maximized when consent interfaces clearly display all options and default to acceptance in the absence of an explicit choice. However, the welfare gains from optimizing banner design are much smaller than those from adopting browser-level consent, which eliminates the time costs of repeated decisions.
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Welfare; Policy
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Farronato, Chiara, Audrey Fradkin, and Tesary Lin. "Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 34025, July 2025.
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