Generalizability is not optional: insights from a cross-cultural study of social discounting [PDF]
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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Cross-cultural study of kinship premium and social discounting of generosity [PDF]
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]
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]
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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Social Discounting under Risk. [PDF]
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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Cultural Similarities and Differences in Social Discounting: The Mediating Role of Harmony-Seeking [PDF]
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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Gender-Specific Effects of Cognitive Load on Social Discounting. [PDF]
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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Valuing environmental costs and benefits in an uncertain future [PDF]
A central point of debate over environmental policies concerns how future costs and benefits should be assessed. The most commonly used method for assessing the value of future costs and benefits is economic discounting.
Fabien Medvecky
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Inequality, Social Discounting, and Estate Taxation [PDF]
To what degree should societies allow inequality to be inherited? What role should estate taxation play in shaping the intergenerational transmission of welfare? We explore these questions by modeling altruistically-linked individuals who experience privately observed taste or productivity shocks.
Emmanuel Farhi, Ivan Werning
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Adults with more severe psychopathy in the community show increased social discounting [PDF]
Psychopathy 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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