Short-sighted greed? Focusing on the future promotes reputation-based generosity
Long-term thinking and voluntary resource sharing are two distinctive traits of human nature. Across three experiments (N=1,082), I propose a causal connection: Sometimes people are generous because they think about the future. Participants were randomly assigned to either focus on the present or th...
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| Language: | English |
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Society for Judgment and Decision Making
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Judgment and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sjdm.org/17/17907b/jdm17907b.pdf |