Pleas for patience from the cumulative future self. (26th April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Maglio, Sam J.; Hershfield, Hal E.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 44(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-04-26
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X20000953
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: Current selves wield all the power in intertemporal tradeoffs. Although one set of future selves will make similar tradeoffs in the future, another self – who we term the cumulative future self – falls on the receiving end of those dictated decisions. How current selves commune with the cumulative future self determines whether the former heed pleas, from the latter, for patience.