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Scientific Reports, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented global changes in individual and collective behaviour. To reduce the spread of the virus, public health bodies have promoted social distancing measures while attempting to mitigate their mental health
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SOCIAL DISCOUNTING AND THE LONG RATE OF INTEREST [PDF]
Mathematical Finance, 2013 AbstractThe well‐known theorem of Dybvig, Ingersoll, and Ross shows that the long zero‐coupon rate can never fall. This result, which, although undoubtedly correct, has been regarded by many as surprising, stems from the implicit assumption that the long‐term discount function has an exponential tail.
Brody, DC, Hughston, LP
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Synergy and discounting of cooperation in social dilemmas [PDF]
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2006 The emergence and maintenance of cooperation by natural selection is an enduring conundrum in evolutionary biology, which has been studied using a variety of game theoretical models inspired by different biological situations. The most widely studied games are the Prisoner's Dilemma, the Snowdrift game and by-product mutualism for pairwise interactions,
Hauert, Christoph +3 more
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Enhancement in dopamine reduces generous behaviour in women.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Generosity is a human behavior common in social contexts. However, humans are not equally generous to everyone alike. Instead, generosity decreases as a function of social distance, an effect called social discounting.
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Spatial discounting of food and social rewards in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
Frontiers in Psychology, 2011 In temporal discounting, animals trade off the time to obtain a reward against the quality of a reward, choosing between a smaller reward available sooner versus a larger reward available later.
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Cognitive Research, 2022 The tendency to devaluate delayed rewards, a phenomenon referred to as ‘discounting behaviour’, has been studied by wide-ranging research examining individuals choosing between sooner but smaller or later but larger rewards.
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SOCIAL DISCOUNT RATE: ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY [PDF]
Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2018 The purpose of the paper is to investigate the assessment methods of social discount rate, to determine its calculation algorithm and to substantiate applied aspects relatively implementation of one or another method during cash flow discounting in ...
Volodymyr Lipkan +2 more
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Let's decide together: Differences between individual and joint delay discounting. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 This study addressed the question whether or not social collaboration has an effect on delay discounting, the tendency to prefer sooner but smaller over later but larger delivered rewards.
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Social network and temporal discounting [PDF]
Network Science, 2017 AbstractFor reasons of social influence and social logistics, people in closed networks are expected to experience time compression: The more closed a person's network, the steeper the person's discount function, and the more narrow the expected time horizon within which the person deliberates events and behavior.
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Pooling Expert Opinion on Environmental Discounting: An International Delphi Survey
Conservation & Society, 2016 The primary aim of this study is to examine the various issues involved in environmental discounting using a Delphi survey of a worldwide panel drawn from specialists in issues relating to discounting and long-term investment evaluation.
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