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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Main Authors: Ziegler, Fenja V., Tunney, Richard J.
Format: Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2656/