Question 1

Which emotion may decrease the endowment effect,causing an owner of a good to lower his or her selling price?

Accepted Answer

A)  Anger.
B)  Disgust.
C)  Happiness.
D)  Fear. B

Question 2

Relative to the present time period,people tend to view all gains and losses in the future to be worth less than they would be in the present.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 3

Describe one proposed approach to dealing with the conflict between the "want" self and the "should" self.

Accepted Answer

Schelling and Thaler propose that the "should" self develop advance schemes to corral,co-opt,or control the "want" self.For example,make inflexible pre-commitments. Thaler and Shefrin propose that the "should" self search for ways to bring the interests of the two selves into alignment. Raiffa proposed to acknowledge this conflict as an error in judgment made by one of the selves,and to question each self to find out which of them is making the error. The authors recommend to develop a rational negotiation strategy for dealing with the "want" self,and to give the "want" self more voice in the negotiation,in order to increase the likelihood of compliance with what will be decided.

Question 4

Which of the following helps promote more rational decision making?

Accepted Answer

A)  Standards of comparison
B)  Focus on salient attributes
C)  The "multiple-selves" approach
D)  Positive,rather than negative affect

Question 5

What explanation was given to the fact that silver-medal winners often appear less happy with their achievement than bronze-medal winners?

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Question 6

Self-serving reasoning causes people to pay less critical attention when assessing:

Accepted Answer

A)  Favorable information.
B)  Ambiguous information.
C)  Probabilities.
D)  Threatening information to their sense of self.

Question 7

According to the "multiple-selves" theory,if an online DVD rental service could offer same-day deliveries,so that people who order a movie receive it the same day,what change is likely to happen to the rental profile?

Accepted Answer

A)  More documentaries and art films will be rented and less comedies and action movies.
B)  More comedies and action movies will be rented and less documentaries and art films.
C)  More documentaries and art films will be rented,but less will actually be watched.
D)  More comedies and action movies will be rented,but less will actually be watched.

Question 8

Sadness has been found to focus one's attention to _______________.

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Question 9

How do the two selves in the "multiple-selves" theory interact in evaluations of an option that bears short-term gratification and long-term costs?

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Question 10

__________ is a negative emotion that shares many features with happiness,such as increased confidence and decreased sensitivity to risk.

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Question 11

Cognitive neuroscience research has refuted the "multiple-selves" theory,finding that both short-term and long-term gratifications activate the same regions in the brain.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

A rational decision maker would discount the future using ___________ discounting.

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Question 13

According to the Multiple-Selves theory,what is the subject of disagreement between the two "selves"?

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Question 14

A senator wants to pass a bill to implement a substantial increase in the tax on gasoline.Which feature is most likely to help the bill's chances of being passed?

Accepted Answer

A)  To frame the bill in terms of potential gains,instead of potential losses.
B)  To emphasize that people today do not do enough to reduce gas consumption,so as to tap other senator's self-worth.
C)  To propose that the bill would come into effect in the future,not immediately.
D)  To emphasize the fairness of the bill,so as to tap other's senators fairness perceptions.

Question 15

What are the three criteria on negotiating between the "want" self and the "should" self?

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Question 16

People's assessments of fair allocation of resources are influenced primarily by the importance of attributes affecting what is fair.

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