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Social Cooperation and Self‐control

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  • Gordon R. Foxall
  • Howard Rachlin

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Social cooperation and self‐control are, in common, coherent patterns of choice extended in social space and time—as opposed to a series of case‐by‐case choices of locally higher‐valued alternatives. Patterns of social cooperation and self‐control may evolve (in the face of locally higher‐valued alternatives) by pattern selection, a process in behavioral evolution (i.e., learning) corresponding to multilevel selection in biological evolution. Individual tendencies toward social cooperation (or altruism) and self‐control may be measured by social and delay discount functions, which take the same (hyperbolic) form in the two cases. (An Appendix discusses the use of hypothetical rewards in behavioral economic research.) Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Gordon R. Foxall & Howard Rachlin, 2016. "Social Cooperation and Self‐control," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 37(4-5), pages 249-260, 06-07.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:37:y:2016:i:4-5:p:249-260
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