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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.
José Martínez-Paz +3 more
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Social Determinants of Delayed Gratification Among American Children
Caspian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2020 Background: A wide array of Socioeconomic Status (SES) indicators show differential effects for the members of diverse social groups. Researchers know a little about the ethnic variation and the effects of family income on delay discounting which is the ...
Shervin Assari
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Heliyon, 2023 Substance use disorders (SUD) have been related to high criminal justice costs, expensive healthcare, social impairment, and decision-making deficits. In non-social decision-making tasks, people with SUD tend to take more risks and choose small immediate
Laurent Avila-Chauvet +3 more
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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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The Role of Discounting in Energy Policy Investments
Energies, 2021 For informing future energy policy decisions, it is essential to choose the correct social discount rate (SDR) for ex-ante economic evaluations. Generally, costs and benefits—both economic and environmental—are weighted through a single constant discount
Gabriella Maselli, Antonio Nesticò
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The social contagion of temporal discounting in small social networks
Cognitive Research, 2021 Decisions often require a tradeoff between immediate and long-term gratification. How individuals resolve such tradeoffs reflects constructs such as temporal discounting, the degree that individuals devalue delayed rewards. Recent research has started to
Michael T. Bixter, Christian C. Luhmann
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International Journal of MycobacteriologyBackground: This study assessed the effects of social support, resilience, temporal discounting, and stigma on medication adherence among people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (PwDR-TB) in Lagos, Nigeria.
Olusola Adedeji Adejumo +3 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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Rational social distancing in epidemics with uncertain vaccination timing.
PLoS ONE, 2023 During epidemics people may reduce their social and economic activity to lower their risk of infection. Such social distancing strategies will depend on information about the course of the epidemic but also on when they expect the epidemic to end, for ...
Simon K Schnyder +3 more
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Abridged Social Discounting Validation
, 2023 Validating Social Discounting Abridged ...
Paige Amormino
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