Social discounting.

نویسندگان

  • Bryan Jones
  • Howard Rachlin
چکیده

The amount of money a person was willing to forgo in order to give 75 dollars to another person decreased as a hyperbolic function of the perceived social distance between them. Similar hyperbolic functions have previously been shown to describe both time and probability discounting.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Psychological science

دوره 17 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006