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Social Cooperation and Self‐control
Author(s) -
Rachlin Howard
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.2714
Subject(s) - altruism (biology) , selection (genetic algorithm) , control (management) , face (sociological concept) , social control , microeconomics , process (computing) , social learning , space (punctuation) , economics , social psychology , psychology , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , management , knowledge management , social science , operating system
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.