Introducing Procedural Utility: Not Only What, but Also How Matters

Introducing Procedural Utility: Not only What, but also How Matters

People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated more widely into economic theory and empirical research. Three building blocks of a concept of procedura...

Not Only What, but Also How Matters Introducing Procedural Utility: Not Only What, but Also How Matters

People not only care about outcomes, they also value the procedures which lead to the outcomes. Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. This paper aims at introducing the concept of procedural utility into economics, and argues that it should be incorporated more widely into economic theory and empirical research. Three building blocks of a concept of procedura...

Mechanisms of Change: Exploring not only When and What, but also How Declarative Memory Develops

Age-related changes in representational flexibility are a characteristic feature of declarative memory development. The authors suggest that a qualitative shift in the nature of infants’ memory representations accounts for increasing memory flexibility with age. We will argue that a comprehensive theory of declarative memory development must (1) account for the effect of experience on flexibili...

standardized infertility treatments not only ensure maternal-fetal health but also provide higher success rates

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Not Only What But also When A Theory of Dynamic Voluntary Disclosure PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE