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Psychological Science 2006

Social Discounting

Bryan A. Jones; Howard Rachlin

Stony Brook University

Abstract

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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10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01699.x
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