Patience is a virtue: Cooperative people have lower discount rates

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 780-785

  Curry, Oliver S ^a   Price, Michael E ^b   Price, Jade G ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Discount rate; Patience; Public good game; Reciprocal altruism

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749096485     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.09.023     Document Type: Article

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