Real and hypothetical rewards in self-control and social discounting

Judgment and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 552-564

  Locey, Matthew L ^a   Jones, Bryan A ^b   Rachlin, Howard ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Humans; Hypothetical rewards; Prisoner's dilemma; Real rewards; Social discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052684872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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