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Title: | Patience is a virtue: Cooperative people have lower discount rates |
Authors: | Curry, OS Price, M Price, JG |
Keywords: | Reciprocal altruism;Public-good game;Discount rate;Patience;Cooperation |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Personality and Individual Differences. 44(3): 780-785 |
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. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/2718 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2007.09.023 |
Appears in Collections: | Psychology Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
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