Research & Publications

Publications

Bleichrodt, H., Potter van Loon, R.J.D., and D. Prelec. Beta-delta or delta-tau? A reformulation of quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Management Science, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4453
Pascual-Ezama, D., Muñoz, A. and D. Prelec. Do not tell me more; you are honest: A preconceived honesty bias. Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, 12, 3646.
Galesic, M., Bruine de Bruin, W., Dalege, J., Feld, S., Kreuter, F., Olsson, H., Prelec, D., Stein, D. L. and T. van der Does. Human social sensing is an untapped resource for social sciences. Nature, 2021, 591(7866), 214-222.
Rahmandad, H., Denrell, J. and D. Prelec. What makes dynamic strategic problems difficult? Evidence from an experimental study. Strategic Management Journal, 2021, 42(5), 865-897.
Banker, S., Dunfield, D., Huang, A., and D. Prelec. Neural mechanisms of credit card spending. Scientific Reports, 2021. 11, 4070 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83488-3.
Pascual-Ezama, D., Prelec, D., Muñoz, A. and B. Gil-Gómez de Liaño. Cheaters, liars, or both? A new classification of dishonesty profiles. Psychological Science, 2020, 31(9), 1097-1106.
Cvitanić, J., Prelec, D., Radas, S. and H. Šikić. 2020. Incentive-compatible surveys via posterior probabilities. Theory of Probability & Its Applications, 2020, 65(2), 292-321.
Radas, S. and D. Prelec, Whose data can we trust: How meta-predictions can be used to uncover credible respondents in surveys. PLOSOne, December 2, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225432.
Cvitanić, J., Prelec, D., Riley, B. and B. Tereick. Honesty by type-matching, American Economic Review: Insights. 2019, 1(2), 179-192
Collell-Talleda, G., Prelec, D., and K.R. Patil , A simple bagging based plug-in ensemble for binary and multiclass imbalanced data, Neurocomputing, 2017, doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2017.08.035.
Prelec, D., Seung, H. S., & McCoy, J. “A solution to the single-question crowd wisdom problem.” Nature, 2017, 541(7638), 532-535 (cover feature).
Pascual-Ezama, D., Dunfield, D., Gil-Gomez de Liano, B., and D. Prelec. “Peer effects in unethical behavior: Standing or reputation?” PLOSOne, April 8, 2015,e.0122305.
Manning, J, Hedden, T., Wickens, N., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Prelec, D., J. D. E. Gabrieli. Personality Influences Temporal Discounting Preferences: Behavioral and Brain Evidence, Neuroimage, 2014, 98, 42-49.
Prelec, D. “Choosing at the wrong rate: Lessons from the Harvard game.” In Sustainable Consumption - Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives: In Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Alistair Ulph (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2014.
Ziegler, D.A., Ashourian, P., Wonderlick, J.S., Sarokhan, A.K., Prelec, D., Scherzer, C.R., and S. Corkin, “Motor Impulsivity in Parkinson Disease: Associations with COMT and DRD2 polymorphisms,” Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2014, 55(3), 278-286.
Bleichrodt, H., Kothyial, A., Prelec, D. and P. Wakker. “Compound Invariance Implies Prospect Theory for Simple Prospects,” Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2013, 57(3), 68-77.
Pascual-Ezama, D., Prelec, D. and D. Dunfield. “Motivation, Money, Prestige and Cheats,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 93, 367-373.
Weaver, R. and Prelec, D. “Creating truthtelling incentives with the Bayesian Truth Serum,” Journal of Marketing Research, 2013, 50(3), 289-302.
Prelec, D. “Decision Analysis from a neo-Calvinist point of view.” In Essays in Behavioural Public Policy, A. J. Oliver (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2013.
John, L., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices with Incentives for Truth-telling,” Psychological Science (March 2012).
McKay, R., Mijovic-Prelec, D. and D. Prelec. “Protesting too much: Self-deception and self-signaling.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2011, 34, 34-35.
Mijovic-Prelec, D. and D. Prelec. “Self-deception as self-signaling: A model and experimental evidence.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biology, 2010, 365, 227-240.
Loewenstein, Y., Prelec, D., and H.S. Seung. “Operant matching as a Nash equilibrium of an intertemporal game.” Neural Computation, 2009, 21 (10), 2755-2773.
Prelec, D. “Consumer behavior and the future of consumer payments,” in Moving Money: The Future of Consumer Payment, R. E. Litan and M. N. Baily (eds.), New York and Washington D.C.: Brookings Foundation, 2009.
Knutson, B., Wimmer, E., Rick, S., Hollon, N.G., Prelec, D., and G. Loewenstein. “Neural antecedents of the endowment effect.” Neuron, 2008, 58 (5), 814-822.
Ariely, D., Kamenica, E., and D. Prelec. “Man’s search for meaning: The case of Legos.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67(3), 671-677.
Ebert, J. and D. Prelec. “The fragility of time: Time-insensitivity and valuation of the near and far future.” Management Science, 2007, 53, 1423-1438.
Knutson, B., Rick, S., Wimmer, E., Prelec, D., and G. Loewenstein. “Neural predictors of purchases.” Neuron, 2007, 53, 147-156.
Prelec, D. “Rebuilding the boat while staying afloat: The modeling challenge for behavioral economics.” Journal of Marketing Research, 2006, 43, 332-336.
Ariely, D., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Tom Sawyer and the construction of value.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, 60, 1-10 (lead article).
Camerer, C., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Neuroeconomics: How neuroscience can inform economics,” Journal of Economic Literature, 2005, 43, 9-64 (lead article).
Prelec, D. “A Bayesian truth serum for subjective data.” Science, 2004, 306, 462-466 (lead research report).
Prelec, D. “Decreasing impatience: A criterion for non-stationary time preference and hyperbolic discounting,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106, 511-532.
Camerer, C., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Neuroeconomics: Why economics needs brains,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106, 555-579.
Ariely, D., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Coherent arbitrariness: Stable demand curves without stable preferences.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118, 73-105.
Prelec, D. and R. Bodner. “Self-signaling and self-control,” Time and Decision, G. Loewenstein, D. Read, & R.F. Baumeister (eds.) Russell Sage Press, New York, 2003.
Bodner, R. and D. Prelec. “Self-signaling in a neo-Calvinist model of everyday decision making,” in Psychology and Economics, Vol I I. Brocas and J. Carillo (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2002.
Prelec, D., and D. Simester, “Always leave home without it: A further investigation of the credit card effect on willingness-to-pay,” Marketing Letters, 2001. 12, 5-12.
Prelec, D. “Compound Invariant Weighting Functions in Prospect Theory,” in Choices, Values, Frames, D. Kahneman and A. Tversky (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Loewenstein, G., Prelec, D., and R. Weber. “What me worry? A Psychological Perspective on Economic Aspects of Retirement,” in H. Aaron (ed) Psychological Perspectives on Retirement. New York and Washington D.C.: Brookings Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2000.
Prelec, D. “The Probability Weighting Function,” Econometrica, 1998, 66, 497-527 (lead article).
Prelec, D. and G. Loewenstein. “The Red and the Black: Mental accounting of savings and debt.” Marketing Science. January, 1998, 17, 4-28. (lead article)
Prelec, D., Wernerfelt, B., and F. Zettelmeyer. “The role of inference in context effects,” Journal of Consumer Research, June 1997.
Prelec, D., and G. Loewenstein. “Beyond time discounting,” Marketing Letters, 1997, 8, 97-108.
Herrnstein, R.J., G. Loewenstein, D. Prelec, and W. Vaughan, Jr. “Utility maximization and melioration: Internalities in individual choice,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1993, 6, 149-185.
Loewenstein, G. and D. Prelec. “Preferences over sequences of outcomes, ”Psychological Review, 1993, 100, 91-108.
Loewenstein, G. and D. Prelec. “Anomalies in intertemporal choice: Evidence and an interpretation,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992, 107, 573-598.
Herrnstein, R.J., and D. Prelec. “Melioration,” in Choice Over Time, G. Loewenstein and J. Elster (eds.), New York: Russell Sage Press, 1992.
Herrnstein, R.J., and D. Prelec. “A theory of addiction,” in Choice Over Time, G. Loewenstein and J. Elster (eds.), New York: Russell Sage Press, 1992.
Prelec, D., and R. J. Herrnstein. “Preferences and Principles, Alternative Guidelines for Choice,” in Strategic Reflections on Human Behavior (R. Zeckhauser, editor), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.
Prelec, D., and G. Loewenstein. “Decision making over time and under uncertainty: A common approach,” Management Science, 770-786, 37, 1991.
Herrnstein, R.J., and D. Prelec. “Melioration: A theory of distributed choice,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 137-156, 5, 1991.
Loewenstein, G. and D. Prelec. “Negative time preference,” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 347-352, 81, 1991.
Prelec, D. “Values and principles: Some limitations on traditional economic analysis,”in Socioeconomics: Toward a New Synthesis, A. Etzioni and P. Lawrence d(Eds.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1991.
Prelec, D. "A pseudo-endowment effect, and its implications for some recent nonexpected utility models," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1990, 3, 247-259.
Prelec, D. "The assumptions underlying the generalized matching law," Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1984, 41, 101-107.
Prelec, D. "The empirical claims of maximization theory: A reply to Rachlin, and to Kagel, Battalio, and Green.” Psychological Review. 1983, 90, 385-389.
Prelec, D. “Matching, maximizing, and the hyperbolic reinforcement feedback function.” Psychological Review. 1982, 89, 189-231.
Prelec, D. and R.J. Herrnstein. “Feedback functions for reinforcement: A paradigmatic experiment,” Animal Learning and Behavior, 1978, 6, 181-186.

Publications

Bleichrodt, H., Potter van Loon, R.J.D., and D. Prelec. Beta-delta or delta-tau? A reformulation of quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Management Science, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4453

Pascual-Ezama, D., Muñoz, A. and D. Prelec. Do not tell me more; you are honest: A preconceived honesty bias. Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, 12, 3646.

Galesic, M., Bruine de Bruin, W., Dalege, J., Feld, S., Kreuter, F., Olsson, H., Prelec, D., Stein, D. L. and T. van der Does. Human social sensing is an untapped resource for social sciences. Nature, 2021, 591(7866), 214-222.

Rahmandad, H., Denrell, J. and D. Prelec. What makes dynamic strategic problems difficult? Evidence from an experimental study. Strategic Management Journal, 2021, 42(5), 865-897.

Banker, S., Dunfield, D., Huang, A., and D. Prelec. Neural mechanisms of credit card spending. Scientific Reports, 2021. 11, 4070 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83488-3.

Pascual-Ezama, D., Prelec, D., Muñoz, A. and B. Gil-Gómez de Liaño. Cheaters, liars, or both? A new classification of dishonesty profiles. Psychological Science, 2020, 31(9), 1097-1106.

Cvitanić, J., Prelec, D., Radas, S. and H. Šikić. 2020. Incentive-compatible surveys via posterior probabilities. Theory of Probability & Its Applications, 2020, 65(2), 292-321.

Radas, S. and D. Prelec, Whose data can we trust: How meta-predictions can be used to uncover credible respondents in surveys. PLOSOne, December 2, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225432.

Cvitanić, J., Prelec, D., Riley, B. and B. Tereick. Honesty by type-matching, American Economic Review: Insights. 2019, 1(2), 179-192

Collell-Talleda, G., Prelec, D., and K.R. Patil , A simple bagging based plug-in ensemble for binary and multiclass imbalanced data, Neurocomputing, 2017, doi:10.1016/j.neucom.2017.08.035.

Prelec, D., Seung, H. S., & McCoy, J. “A solution to the single-question crowd wisdom problem.” Nature, 2017, 541(7638), 532-535 (cover feature).

Pascual-Ezama, D., Dunfield, D., Gil-Gomez de Liano, B., and D. Prelec. “Peer effects in unethical behavior: Standing or reputation?” PLOSOne, April 8, 2015,e.0122305.

Manning, J, Hedden, T., Wickens, N., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Prelec, D., J. D. E. Gabrieli. Personality Influences Temporal Discounting Preferences: Behavioral and Brain Evidence, Neuroimage, 2014, 98, 42-49.

Prelec, D. “Choosing at the wrong rate: Lessons from the Harvard game.” In Sustainable Consumption - Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives: In Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Alistair Ulph (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2014.

Ziegler, D.A., Ashourian, P., Wonderlick, J.S., Sarokhan, A.K., Prelec, D., Scherzer, C.R., and S. Corkin, “Motor Impulsivity in Parkinson Disease: Associations with COMT and DRD2 polymorphisms,” Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2014, 55(3), 278-286.

Bleichrodt, H., Kothyial, A., Prelec, D. and P. Wakker. “Compound Invariance Implies Prospect Theory for Simple Prospects,” Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2013, 57(3), 68-77.

Pascual-Ezama, D., Prelec, D. and D. Dunfield. “Motivation, Money, Prestige and Cheats,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 93, 367-373.

Weaver, R. and Prelec, D. “Creating truthtelling incentives with the Bayesian Truth Serum,” Journal of Marketing Research, 2013, 50(3), 289-302.

Prelec, D. “Decision Analysis from a neo-Calvinist point of view.” In Essays in Behavioural Public Policy, A. J. Oliver (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2013.

John, L., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices with Incentives for Truth-telling,” Psychological Science (March 2012).

McKay, R., Mijovic-Prelec, D. and D. Prelec. “Protesting too much: Self-deception and self-signaling.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2011, 34, 34-35.

Mijovic-Prelec, D. and D. Prelec. “Self-deception as self-signaling: A model and experimental evidence.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biology, 2010, 365, 227-240.

Loewenstein, Y., Prelec, D., and H.S. Seung. “Operant matching as a Nash equilibrium of an intertemporal game.” Neural Computation, 2009, 21 (10), 2755-2773.

Prelec, D. “Consumer behavior and the future of consumer payments,” in Moving Money: The Future of Consumer Payment, R. E. Litan and M. N. Baily (eds.), New York and Washington D.C.: Brookings Foundation, 2009.

Knutson, B., Wimmer, E., Rick, S., Hollon, N.G., Prelec, D., and G. Loewenstein. “Neural antecedents of the endowment effect.” Neuron, 2008, 58 (5), 814-822.

Ariely, D., Kamenica, E., and D. Prelec. “Man’s search for meaning: The case of Legos.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67(3), 671-677.

Ebert, J. and D. Prelec. “The fragility of time: Time-insensitivity and valuation of the near and far future.” Management Science, 2007, 53, 1423-1438.

Knutson, B., Rick, S., Wimmer, E., Prelec, D., and G. Loewenstein. “Neural predictors of purchases.” Neuron, 2007, 53, 147-156.

Prelec, D. “Rebuilding the boat while staying afloat: The modeling challenge for behavioral economics.” Journal of Marketing Research, 2006, 43, 332-336.

Ariely, D., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Tom Sawyer and the construction of value.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, 60, 1-10 (lead article).

Camerer, C., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Neuroeconomics: How neuroscience can inform economics,” Journal of Economic Literature, 2005, 43, 9-64 (lead article).

Prelec, D. “A Bayesian truth serum for subjective data.” Science, 2004, 306, 462-466 (lead research report).

Prelec, D. “Decreasing impatience: A criterion for non-stationary time preference and hyperbolic discounting,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106, 511-532.

Camerer, C., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Neuroeconomics: Why economics needs brains,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106, 555-579.

Ariely, D., Loewenstein, G., and D. Prelec. “Coherent arbitrariness: Stable demand curves without stable preferences.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118, 73-105.

Prelec, D. and R. Bodner. “Self-signaling and self-control,” Time and Decision, G. Loewenstein, D. Read, & R.F. Baumeister (eds.) Russell Sage Press, New York, 2003.

Bodner, R. and D. Prelec. “Self-signaling in a neo-Calvinist model of everyday decision making,” in Psychology and Economics, Vol I I. Brocas and J. Carillo (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2002.

Prelec, D., and D. Simester, “Always leave home without it: A further investigation of the credit card effect on willingness-to-pay,” Marketing Letters, 2001. 12, 5-12.

Prelec, D. “Compound Invariant Weighting Functions in Prospect Theory,” in Choices, Values, Frames, D. Kahneman and A. Tversky (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Loewenstein, G., Prelec, D., and R. Weber. “What me worry? A Psychological Perspective on Economic Aspects of Retirement,” in H. Aaron (ed) Psychological Perspectives on Retirement. New York and Washington D.C.: Brookings Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2000.

Prelec, D. “The Probability Weighting Function,” Econometrica, 1998, 66, 497-527 (lead article).

Prelec, D. and G. Loewenstein. “The Red and the Black: Mental accounting of savings and debt.” Marketing Science. January, 1998, 17, 4-28. (lead article)

Prelec, D., Wernerfelt, B., and F. Zettelmeyer. “The role of inference in context effects,” Journal of Consumer Research, June 1997.

Prelec, D., and G. Loewenstein. “Beyond time discounting,” Marketing Letters, 1997, 8, 97-108.

Herrnstein, R.J., G. Loewenstein, D. Prelec, and W. Vaughan, Jr. “Utility maximization and melioration: Internalities in individual choice,” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1993, 6, 149-185.

Loewenstein, G. and D. Prelec. “Preferences over sequences of outcomes, ”Psychological Review, 1993, 100, 91-108.

Loewenstein, G. and D. Prelec. “Anomalies in intertemporal choice: Evidence and an interpretation,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992, 107, 573-598.

Herrnstein, R.J., and D. Prelec. “Melioration,” in Choice Over Time, G. Loewenstein and J. Elster (eds.), New York: Russell Sage Press, 1992.

Herrnstein, R.J., and D. Prelec. “A theory of addiction,” in Choice Over Time, G. Loewenstein and J. Elster (eds.), New York: Russell Sage Press, 1992.

Prelec, D., and R. J. Herrnstein. “Preferences and Principles, Alternative Guidelines for Choice,” in Strategic Reflections on Human Behavior (R. Zeckhauser, editor), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991.

Prelec, D., and G. Loewenstein. “Decision making over time and under uncertainty: A common approach,” Management Science, 770-786, 37, 1991.

Herrnstein, R.J., and D. Prelec. “Melioration: A theory of distributed choice,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 137-156, 5, 1991.

Loewenstein, G. and D. Prelec. “Negative time preference,” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 347-352, 81, 1991.

Prelec, D. “Values and principles: Some limitations on traditional economic analysis,”in Socioeconomics: Toward a New Synthesis, A. Etzioni and P. Lawrence d(Eds.), New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1991.

Prelec, D. "A pseudo-endowment effect, and its implications for some recent nonexpected utility models," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1990, 3, 247-259.

Prelec, D. "The assumptions underlying the generalized matching law," Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1984, 41, 101-107.

Prelec, D. "The empirical claims of maximization theory: A reply to Rachlin, and to Kagel, Battalio, and Green.” Psychological Review. 1983, 90, 385-389.

Prelec, D. “Matching, maximizing, and the hyperbolic reinforcement feedback function.” Psychological Review. 1982, 89, 189-231.

Prelec, D. and R.J. Herrnstein. “Feedback functions for reinforcement: A paradigmatic experiment,” Animal Learning and Behavior, 1978, 6, 181-186.