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Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Social discounting predicts that one’s concern for others decreases with increasing social distance. Cultural dimensions may influence this social behavior.
Jiawei Liu +19 more
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Social discounting of pain. [PDF]
J Exp Anal Behav, 2020 Impatience can be formalized as a delay discount rate, describing how the subjective value of reward decreases as it is delayed. By analogy, selfishness can be formalized as a social discount rate, representing how the subjective value of rewarding another person decreases with increasing social distance.
Story GW +5 more
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Quantitative Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Discounting for Gains and Losses [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Social discounting is when resource allocation decreases as social distance increases. Studies fitting different quantitative models to social discounting data have shown that a q-exponential function based on Tsallis' statistics best fits loss data ...
Sarah E. Stegall +4 more
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Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Discounting: The Mediating Role of Harmony-Seeking [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 One’s generosity to others declines as a function of social distance, which is known as social discounting. We examined cultural similarities and differences in social discounting and the mediating roles of the two aspects of interdependence (self ...
Keiko Ishii, Charis Eisen
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Social Discounting under Risk. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 As a measure of how prosocial behavior depends on social distance, social discounting is defined as the decrease in generosity between the decision maker and the recipient as the social distance increases. While risk is a ubiquitous part of modern life, there is limited research on the relationship between risk and prosocial behavior.
Jin J, Pei G, Ma Q.
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Generalizability is not optional: insights from a cross-cultural study of social discounting [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Current scientific reforms focus more on solutions to the problem of reliability (e.g. direct replications) than generalizability. Here, we use a cross-cultural study of social discounting to illustrate the utility of a complementary focus on ...
Leonid Tiokhin +4 more
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Gender-Specific Effects of Cognitive Load on Social Discounting. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We live busy, social lives, and meeting the challenges of our complex environments puts strain on our cognitive systems. However, cognitive resources are limited. It is unclear how cognitive load affects social decision making.
Tina Strombach +3 more
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What Makes You Generous? The Influence of Rural and Urban Rearing on Social Discounting in China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 An individual's willingness to share resources declines as the social distance between the decision maker and the recipient increases, which is known as social discounting.
Qingguo Ma, Guanxiong Pei, Jia Jin
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Adults with more severe psychopathy in the community show increased social discounting [PDF]
Communications PsychologyPsychopathy is a personality construct characterized by boldness, disinhibition, insensitivity to others’ suffering or distress, and persistent engagement in behaviors that harm others.
Naomi Nero +8 more
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Social discounting and the prisoner's dilemma game. [PDF]
J Exp Anal Behav, 2013 AbstractAltruistic behavior has been defined in economic terms as “…costly acts that confer economic benefits on other individuals” (Fehr & Fischbacher, 2003). In a prisoner's dilemma game, cooperation benefits the group but is costly to the individual (relative to defection), yet a significant number of players choose to cooperate. We propose that
Locey ML, Safin V, Rachlin H.
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