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Precommitment

In psychology, precommitment is a strategy or a method of self-control that a person or organisation may use to restrict the number of choices available to them at a future time. Precommitment may also involve imposing obstacles or additional costs to certain courses of action in advance. Agents may precommit themselves when they predict that their…

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Precommitment

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples38
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
Components1

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related to Elster's theory · 14
Precommitment → Circe, Elaborating, Elster, Having, Here, Human, Jon Elster, On, Recognizing, Sirens, Strotz's, The Odyssey, Thus, Ulysses
related to Further reading · 13
Precommitment → David, Don't Let Me Do, Frontiers, Frontiers Media SA, ISSN, Kurth-Nelson, Models, Neuroscience, PMC, PMID, Redish, That, Zeb
related to background · 9
Precommitment → Conflict, For, He, In, Schelling, Strotz, The Strategy, This, Thomas Schelling
is a · 2
Precommitment → device that human agents use to overcome the problem of imperfect rationality, strategy or a method of self-control that a person or organisation may use to restrict the number of choices available to them at a future time

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Precommitmentis astrategy or a method of self-control that a person or organisation may use to restrict the number of choices available to them at a future time0.90text
Precommitmentis adevice that human agents use to overcome the problem of imperfect rationality0.90text
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundIn0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundThomas Schelling0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundStrotz0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundSchelling0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundThe Strategy0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundConflict0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundHe0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundThis0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to backgroundFor0.60section
Precommitmentrelated to Elster's theoryJon Elster0.60section

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