Who Can Wait for the Future? A Personality Perspective

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 573-583

  Mahalingam, Vaishali ^a   Stillwell, David ^a   Kosinski, Michal ^a   Rust, John ^a   Kogan, Aleksandr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

decision making; delay discounting; hierarchical linear modeling multilevel modeling; individual differences; personality; social network; time preference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901777480     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613515007     Document Type: Article

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