“…Since Fisher's (1930) Loewenstein &Prelec, 1989a and1989b;Shelley, 1990). Some of these departures were identified by early theorists as causes of inconsistent intertemporal choices and suboptimal planning (e.g., Strotz, 1955 andThaler, 1981 (Strotz, 1955;see also Thaler, 1981 (Thaler, 1981 ;Benzion et al, 1989;Shelley, 1990 Conard, 1963;Stevenson, 1986;Benzion et al, 1989 (1989) and Stevenson (1986), the multiple-period extension has not been supported and is not addressed in this study (Benzion et al, 1989 (March & Shapira, 1987 …”