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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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Distinction bias: Misprediction and mischoice due to joint evaluation
Christopher K. Hsee,Jiao Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: This article identified a new source of failure to make accurate affective predictions or to make experientially optimal choices, referred to as the distinction bias, which occurs when people resort to their JE preferences rather than their SE preferences and overpredict the difference that different values of an attribute (e.g., different salaries) will make to their happiness in SE.
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Stretching the Truth: Elastic Justification and Motivated Communication of Uncertain Information
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that motivational factors influence the communication of private, uncertain information and describe the relationship between elasticity (i.e. uncertainty and vagueness) and motivated communication.
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The Affection Effect in Insurance Decisions
TL;DR: This paper found that people are more willing to purchase insurance for an object at stake, the more affection they have for the object, holding the amount of compensation constant, if the object is damaged.
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The Affection Effect in Insurance Decisions
TL;DR: This paper found that people are more willing to purchase insurance for an object at stake, the more affection they have for the object, holding the amount of compensation constant, if the object is damaged.
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The Construction of Preference: Music, Pandas, and Muggers: On the Affective Psychology of Value
TL;DR: Findings may allow for a novel interpretation of why most real-world value functions are concave and how the processes responsible for nonlinearity of value may also contribute to nonlinear probability weighting.