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Part I. Introduction: Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The construction of preference: an overview; Part II. Preference Reversals: 2. Relative importance of probabilities and payoffs in risk taking; 3. Reversals of preference between bids and choices in gambling decisions; 4. Response-induced reversals of preference in gambling: an extended replication in Las Vegas; 5. Economic theory of choice and the preference reversal phenomenon; Part III. Psychological Theories of Preference Reversals: 6. Contingent weighting in judgment and choice; 7. Cognitive processes in preference reversals; 8. The causes of preference reversal; 9. Preference reversals between joint and separate evaluations of options: a review and theoretical analysis; 10. Attribute-task compatibility as a determinant of consumer preference reversals; 11. Preferences constructed from dynamic micro-processing mechanisms; Part IV. Evidence for Preference Construction: 12. Construction of preferences by constraint satisfaction; 13. Coherent arbitrariness: stable demand curves without stable preferences; 14. Tom Sawyer and the construction of value; 15. When Web pages influence choice: effects of visual primes on experts and novices; 16. When choice is demotivating: can one desire too much of a good thing?; Part V. Theories of Preference Construction: 17. Constructive consumer choice processes; 18. Decision making and action: the search for a dominance structure; 19. Pre- and post-decision construction of preferences: differentiation and consolidation; 20. Choice bracketing; 21. Constructing preferences from memory; Part VI. Affect and Reason: 22. Reason-based choice; 23. The affect heuristic; 24. The functions of affect in the construction of preferences; 25. Mere exposure: a gateway to the subliminal; 26. Introspecting about reasons can reduce post-choice satisfaction; Part VII. Miswanting: 27. New challenges to the rationality assumption; 28. Distinction bias: misprediction and mischoice due to joint evaluation; 29. Lay rationalism and inconsistency between predicted experience and decision; 30. Miswanting: some problems in the forecasting of future affective states; Part VIII. Contingent Valuation: 31. Economic preferences or attitude expressions?: an analysis of dollar responses to public issues; 32. Music, pandas, and muggers: on the affective psychology of value; 33. Valuing environmental resources: a constructive approach; Part IX. Preference Management: 34. Measuring constructed preferences: towards a building code;  35. Constructing preferences from labile values; 36. Informed consent and the construction of values; 37. Do defaults save lives?; 38. Libertarian paternalism is not an oxymoron; References; Index.

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