title: Social discounting.
abstract: The amount of money a person was willing to forgo in order to give 75 dollars to another person decreased as a hyperbolic function of the perceived social distance between them. Similar hyperbolic functions have previously been shown to describe both time and probability discounting.
authors.affiliation: Stony Brook University, NY 11794-2500, USA.
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rachlin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004467:Economics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012938:Social Perception