Unlike present‐biased individuals, agents who suffer self‐control costs as in Gul and Pesendorfer,
2001 may choose to restrict their choice set even when they expect to resist temptation…

To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the world rushed to develop
digital contact tracing apps. However, the low rates of app installation have undermined the …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest public health crisis of the last 100 years.
Countries have responded with various levels of lockdown to save lives and stop health …

… On the one hand, Toussaert (2018) is a lab experiment in which I observe both preferences
over a … While Toussaert (2018) focuses on the identification of costly self-control, this study is …

Background Smartphone apps are a convenient, low-cost approach to delivering smoking
cessation support to large numbers of individuals. Yet, the apps are susceptible to low rates of …

1 Summary The Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest public health threat that the world has
seen in the last 100 years. In response, most parts of the US have introduced various levels of “…

Many experiments find that trust intentions are a key determinant of prosociality. If intentions
matter, then prosociality should depend on whether trust intentions can be credibly conveyed…

Introduction Text-messaging programs for smoking cessation, while efficacious, have high
dropout rates. To address this problem, we developed and tested the feasibility and early …

Introduction Peer support has been recommended to promote smoking cessation, but results
from prior meta-analyses have not established its efficacy. We conducted a systematic …

Background: Several stand-alone smartphone apps have used serious games to provide an
engaging approach to quitting smoking. So far, the uptake of these games has been modest…