Shaping your past selves

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (5):657-658 (2005)
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Abstract

I propose to complement Ainslie's idea of “bargaining with your future selves” with that of “shaping your past selves.” The result of such a complementation is that an action can work in two ways: (1) as a predecent for future behavior and (2) as a shaper of past behavior. I argue that this diminishes the unwanted effects of hyperbolic discounting even further.

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Jeanne Peijnenburg
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