The Economics of Attention
综述了心理学和经济学中关于注意力的研究,重点解释注意力如何帮助理解经典经济理论的偏离,并探讨了注意力效用、数字技术带来的注意力外部性、人工智能的影响以及无聊、好奇等动机状态的作用。
Attention is an important resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics with a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain documented violations of classical economic theory. We also identify promising new directions for research, including attention-based utility, the recent proliferation of attentional externalities introduced by digital technology, the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the economics of attention, and the significant role that boredom, curiosity, and other motivational states play in determining how people allocate attention.