Do Yourself a Favor: We Help Our Future Selves for the Same Reasons We Help Others

As humans we have a remarkable capacity to sacrifice for the future, and an equally remarkable capacity to shortchange it, leaving our future selves to pay the price. The research in this dissertation suggests that sacrifice for the future (patience) may be governed by the same rules that govern sac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burum, Bethany Anne
Other Authors: Gilbert, Daniel Todd
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11434
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274598