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M5 Economics_Decision-Making in Managerial Economics
Values,…
M5 Economics_Decision-Making in Managerial Economics
Values, preferences and choices
Case 3.1 Drug addition
Opponent Process Theory, which involves an allostasis {生理恆定} mechnaism, whereby physical events that cause extreme affective responses trigger an opponent process that produces the opposite affective response, to avoid prolonged, extreme reactions
e.g. Cocaine, anabolic steroids
Withdraw symptoms, no longer obtains a pleasure-including response, but still suffers from the pleasure-reducing response
Hardships:
-The longer they abstain, the weaker the memory of the negative consequences of the addiction.
-Fail to anticipate the strength of the future visceral states that will occur if they relapse{復發}
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Transaction utility
Corresponds to the perceived value of the "deal", in other words the difference between the reference price and the price paid
Implications:
- Buy "deals", where transaction utility dominates acquisition utility.
Marketing uses reference prices and emphasizing savings. e.g. clothing
- Opposite situation, where people forgo good that have the potential to benefit the consumer in terms of acquisition utility, but are rejected cuz of high perceived transaction disutility
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