Reviews: Balancing Suspense and Surprise: Timely Decision Making with Endogenous Information Acquisition

Technical quality: This paper proposes an interesting model and derives three main theorems. The paper demonstrates when the decision maker acquires new information (continuation) and when makes a final prediction (stop) in a scenario where the deadline depends on the sensory information. It also shows that the subject's belief state is a supermartingle, and that the optimal policy has a "rendezvous" structure. The continuation and stopping region in this model depend both on the subject's belief state and "context" of the sensory observations. The paper is interesting and technically sound.