Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2718
Full metadata record
DC Field | Value | Language |
---|---|---|
dc.contributor.author | Curry, OS | - |
dc.contributor.author | Price, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Price, JG | - |
dc.coverage.spatial | 6 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-10-02T12:08:59Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2008-10-02T12:08:59Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Personality and Individual Differences. 44(3): 780-785 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2718 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Reciprocal altruism involves foregoing an immediate benefit for the sake of a greater long-term reward. It follows that individuals who exhibit a stronger preference for future over immediate rewards should be more disposed to engage in reciprocal altruism – in other words, ‘patient’ people should be more cooperative. The present study tested this prediction by investigating whether participants’ contributions in a public-good game correlated with their ‘discount rate’. The hypothesis was supported: patient people are indeed more cooperative. The paper discusses alternative interpretations of this result, and makes some suggestions for future research. | en |
dc.format.extent | 87283 bytes | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en |
dc.subject | Reciprocal altruism | en |
dc.subject | Public-good game | en |
dc.subject | Discount rate | en |
dc.subject | Patience | en |
dc.subject | Cooperation | en |
dc.title | Patience is a virtue: Cooperative people have lower discount rates | en |
dc.type | Research Paper | en |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.09.023 | - |
Appears in Collections: | Psychology Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Curry et al 2008.pdf | 85.24 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Items in BURA are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.