@inbook{10.7758/9781610443661.20, ISBN = {9780871545497}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610443661.20}, abstract = {Many of the most important decisions that we make depend on the extent of our orientation toward the future. Our long-term financial fitness depends on how much we save in our early and middle years. Our long-term physical fitness depends on the extent that we adopt healthy habits of life when young. Despite their common dependence on future orientation, academic analyses of savings behavior and of preventive health care draw on entirely different intellectual traditions. Savings behavior has been almost the exclusive domain of economists, while health psychologists have dominated the research on preventive health care.Differences in intellectual tradition}, author = {Andrew Caplin}, booktitle = {Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives of Intertemporal Choice}, pages = {441--458}, publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation}, title = {Fear as a Policy Instrument}, year = {2003} }