Published On: 04/05/2025Categories: Financial Education

Date-delay effect and its importance in rational decisions

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Our study suggests that stress plays a crucial role, influencing how people process time in intertemporal decision making, such that presenting time as periods of postponement generates greater uncertainty, increasing the individual’s stress level and thus promoting more impulsive decisions.

The implementation of strategies aimed at stress management and the promotion of healthy habits can foster more reflective and coherent intertemporal decisions. From a practical point of view, the results have implications in several areas: in general, for business organizations, and specifically for the banking sector and financial institutions.

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Paper

The study of these decisions that we present in this article has been published in the scientific article “Understanding the date-delay effect: demographic and behavioral insights in intertemporal choice.Understanding the date-delay effect: demographic and behavioral insights in intertemporal choice“in which we have investigated the so-called “date-delay effect”.

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