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| Title |
Decisions for Others Become Less Impulsive the Further Away They Are on the Family Tree
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0049479 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Fenja V. Ziegler, Richard J. Tunney |
| Abstract |
People tend to prefer a smaller immediate reward to a larger but delayed reward. Although this discounting of future rewards is often associated with impulsivity, it is not necessarily irrational. Instead it has been suggested that it reflects the decision maker's greater interest in the 'me now' than the 'me in 10 years', such that the concern for our future self is about the same as for someone else who is close to us. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 20 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 15% |
| United States | 3 | 15% |
| Germany | 2 | 10% |
| Spain | 2 | 10% |
| Egypt | 2 | 10% |
| Japan | 1 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 6 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 65% |
| Scientists | 4 | 20% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 15% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 86 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 79 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 31% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 16% |
| Researcher | 10 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Unknown | 8 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 43 | 50% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 5% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 10 | 12% |
| Unknown | 13 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2013.
All research outputs
#2,604,220
of 24,036,420 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#32,710
of 206,253 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,432
of 284,492 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#640
of 4,747 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,036,420 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 206,253 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4,747 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.