hyperbolic discounting

常见例句

Hyperbolic discounting is the tendency for people to prefer a smaller, immediate payoff over a larger, delayed payoff.
双曲贴现是指人们宁愿要金额较小的眼前酬劳也不要金额较大的日后报酬。
Moreover, they may find it difficult to defer gratification or, as economists like to put it, they use hyperbolic discounting.
此外，他们会发现推迟享乐很困难，就像经济学家用双曲线贴现假设的那样。
He has concentrated on the psychology of saving and developed the idea of “hyperbolic discounting”, where individuals have a lower discount rate for events far into the future than for closer times.
他致力于储蓄心理学的研究，阐述了“双曲线贴现率”概念。根据这种概念，个人为遥远将来的事件利用的贴现率低于为较近期事件利用的贴现率。

Unfortunately, humans tend to unconsciously use hyperbolic discounting — the tendency to inappropriately value future events or outcomes — and must often be coaxed towards desirable behavior.
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Economists call this hyperbolic discounting.
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We humans are subject to hyperbolic discounting, not taking full account of long distant future costs for current pleasures, sometimes those running the public health system really do know more than us, there are externalities associated with these behaviours (late night drunks, passive smoking and the visual pollution of someone 300 lbs overweight perhaps).
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