On a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Carbondale, senior Logan Gross and the Rifle Bears varsity baseball team did not let the conditions affect them. Facing off against the Roaring Fork Rams, the Bears made a.
Though not living in the past, Lorrie Mahoney sounded like she couldn’t wait to bring Telluride volleyball’s 2022 back to the future — meaning the imminent 2023 grind, already practice-filled
Rifle hosted the Austin Wooden Bat Memorial Tournament June 28-July 1 at Deerfield Park. In an epic, tit-for-tat battle, the Bears were crowned champions after beating rival Coal Ridge 9-8 on Saturday. FULL RESULTS: Day.
The Mechanics of Temptation and Procrastination
May 30, 2021Caltech
If you plan to cut sugar out of your diet, will you? Economic models make predictions about when people will or will not take certain actions, and when procrastination and temptation will get the better of us. Generally, the models state that your actions are consistent with your plans; if you plan to reduce sugar for the next month, you will.
New Caltech professor of economics Charlie Sprenger is poking holes in these models. He designs experiments to test how people behave when faced with various decisions, ranging from food choices to the implementation of vaccination programs and more. His experiments have shown that the standard economic models of behavior are not consistent with how people act in real-life settings, and these findings suggest the need for new public policy strategies. For instance, what are the best ways to encourage people to make healthy food choices for themselves?