Decisions for others become less impulsive the further away they are on the family tree
People tend to prefer a smaller immediate reward to a larger but delayed reward. Although this discounting of future rewards is often associated with impulsivity, it is not necessarily irrational. Instead it has been suggested that it reflects the decision maker’s greater interest in the ‘me now’ th...
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Public Library of Science
2012
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2656/ |