Don't stop thinking about tomorrow: Individual differences in future self-continuity account for saving

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 280-286

  Ersner Hershfield, Hal ^a   Garton, M Tess ^a   Ballard, Kacey ^a   Samanez Larkin, Gregory R ^a   Knutson, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Future self continuity; Intertemporal choice; Saving behavior; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350180162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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