Soman, D., &Liu, M. W. (2011). Debiasing or rebiasing? Moderating the illusion of delayed incentives.Journal of Economic Psychology, 32(3), 307-316.
This paper studies corrective strategies for the illusion of delayed incentives (Soman, 1998), the phenomena that money-for-effort transactions that are unattractive in the present appear attractive when they are in the future. This illusion occurs because future effort is discounted more heavily than future monetary outcomes. In this research, we show that this bias of differential discounting can be corrected by asking consumers to perform ...