There has been a lot of research on this topic. How familiar are you with that research (both results and methods), and how do you see your project in relation to that research?
A little bit of googling turned up this 2002 paper (pdf) by Shane Frederick, George Loewenstein, and Ted O’Donoghue, which has a summary of that research starting in section 4, “DU Anomalies” (p. 14). In brief, people’s discounting depends on lots of things, and is not thought to be simply hyperbolic (at least not by behavioral economists).
There has been a lot of research on this topic. How familiar are you with that research (both results and methods), and how do you see your project in relation to that research?
A little bit of googling turned up this 2002 paper (pdf) by Shane Frederick, George Loewenstein, and Ted O’Donoghue, which has a summary of that research starting in section 4, “DU Anomalies” (p. 14). In brief, people’s discounting depends on lots of things, and is not thought to be simply hyperbolic (at least not by behavioral economists).