"To Shield From Temptation"

To “ Temptation and Taxation ” (

Temptation 1

This survey discusses decision–theoretic models of agents who seek to constrain and regulate their own future behavior. The common theme is that the decision makers’ future utility is affected by unwanted temptations. The wish to eliminate temptations from future option sets creates a preference for commitment. The surveyed models explore the relationship between temptations and other psycholog...

Mitigating Strategy to Shield the VPN Service from DoS Attack

The exponential growth of internet and drastic enhancement in telecommunication has made the Internet a part of every aspect in the world. Internet is now the heart of the day to day business dealings throughout the world. This has increased the seeking for sensitive data by the attacker. This in turn increased the necessity to protect data through the Internet. Virtual Private Network (VPN) is...

Temptation, Commitment, and Hand-to-Mouth Consumers∗

20% of U.S. households are “wealthy hand-to-mouth” who hold only illiquid assets. But why should they do so, since higher-yielding liquid assets are available? To rationalize this behavior, we build a life-cycle model with non-standard preferences: households are tempted to consume their liquid assets, and therefore purchase housing as a savings commitment device. As a result, they choose to be...

Saying "no" to temptation: Want-to motivation improves self-regulation by reducing temptation rather than by increasing self-control.

Self-regulation has been conceptualized as the interplay between controlled and impulsive processes; however, most research has focused on the controlled side (i.e., effortful self-control). The present studies focus on the effects of motivation on impulsive processes, including automatic preferences for goal-disruptive stimuli and subjective reports of temptations and obstacles, contrasting th...