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Christopher K. Hsee

Researcher at University of Chicago

Publications -  144
Citations -  25934

Christopher K. Hsee is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Happiness & Preference. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 139 publications receiving 24101 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher K. Hsee include University of Hawaii & Yale University.

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Why are People so Prone to Steal Software? The Effect of Cost Structure on Consumer Purchase and Payment Intentions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine why typically law-abiding people are more inclined to steal intellectual property products than more tangible, material products and propose that the inclination to pay for certain types of goods and services is greater than for other types, and what distinguishes the two classes is their cost structure.
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Unit Asking: A Method to Boost Donations and Beyond

TL;DR: It is demonstrated, in both real fund-raisers and scenario-based research, that this simple unit-asking method greatly increases donations for the group of needy persons.
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The Construction of Preference: Lay Rationalism and Inconsistency Between Predicted Experience and Decision

TL;DR: The authors found that people are more likely to favor a rationalistically-superior option when they make a decision than when they predict experience, and that decision-makers may be too cold and overly focus on rationalistic attributes such as economic values, quantitative specifications, and functions.
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Wealth, Warmth and Wellbeing: Whether Happiness is Relative or Absolute Depends on Whether it is About Money, Acquisition or Consumption

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors go to a finer level than overall happiness and distinguish three types of happiness: happiness from money (monetary experience), from acquiring an item (acquisition experience), and from consumption experience (consumption experience).
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Magnitude, Time, and Risk Differ Similarly between Joint and Single Evaluations

TL;DR: This paper explored how reactions to the three basic attributes (outcome size, time, and probability weighting) vary between the two basic evaluation modes: JE (joint evaluation, involving comparison of multiple options) and SE (single evaluation, without comparison).