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    "pk": 28811,
    "title": "Decisions Against Preferences",
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    "abstract": "An agent decides against her preferences, if she considersan option x better than another option y but neverthe-less decides to do y. A central tenet of rational choi-ce theory states that individuals do not decide againsttheir preferences, whereby we find two kinds of potentialcounterexamples in the literature: akrasia, also known asweak-willed decisions, and decisions based on so-calleddeontic constraints such as obligations or commitments.While there is some empirical evidence that weak-willedchoices are a real phenomenon, leading scholars in phi-losophy of economics debate whether choices based oncommitments can be counter-preferential. As far as weknow, however, nobody so far has tried to settle this de-bate empirically. This paper contributes to both debatessince we present some empirical evidence that (i) akrasiacan also be strong-willed and (ii) choices made on the ba-sis of commitments can indeed be counter-preferential.We will conclude that people can decide against theirpreferences without being unreasonable.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Counter-Preferential Choice; RationalChoice Theory; Akrasia; Commitments; Empirical Stu-dies."
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    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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        {
            "first_name": "Messerli",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Michael",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Sheffield",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Reuter",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kevin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Universitat Bern",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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