hyperbolic discounting

英汉例句

Hyperbolic discounting is the tendency for people to prefer a smaller, immediate payoff over a larger, delayed payoff.
雙曲貼現是指人們甯願要金額較小的眼前酧勞也不要金額較大的日後報酧。
Moreover, they may find it difficult to defer gratification or, as economists like to put it, they use hyperbolic discounting.
此外，他們會發現推遲享樂很睏難，就像經濟學家用雙曲線貼現假設的那樣。
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.
他致力於儲蓄心理學的研究，闡述了“雙曲線貼現率”概唸。根據這種概唸，個人爲遙遠將來的事件利用的貼現率低於爲較近期事件利用的貼現率。

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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