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Suspense and Surprise
We model demand for non-instrumental information, drawing on the idea that people derive entertainment utility from suspense and surprise. A period has more suspense if the variance of the next period’s beliefs is greater. A period has more surprise if the current belief is further from the last period’s belief. Under these definitions, we analyze the optimal way to reveal information over time...
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Here we describe how the plots in Figure 3 are generated. There are six applications of the suspense and surprise models: tennis, soccer, blackjack, Clinton-Obama primary, optimal surprise, and optimal suspense. For each application, the second column depicts a scatterplot of surprise and suspense values for each observation, where u(x) = √ x and absolute surprise and suspense values are divide...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Μουσείο Μπενάκη
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2407-9502,1109-4109
DOI: 10.12681/benaki.18244