ABSTRACT
I investigate several known phenomena, and I show that they confirm the hypothesis of adaptive preferences. These are “decision costs”, “loss aversion”, “rational inattention”, the “use it or lose it” phenomenon, “habit formation”, “uncertainty aversion”, “ambiguity aversion”, “religion”, “hyperbolic discounting”, “present bias”, the “default option” in the context of the “nudging” philosophy and the time structure of price elasticities of demand.
