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SUBMITTER: Ludwig RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6980415 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ludwig Rita M RM Flournoy John C JC Berkman Elliot T ET
Journal of research in personality 20190518
Personality traits such as conscientiousness and impulsivity correlate with temporal discounting, the degree to which individuals discount the value of future relative to present rewards. These variables have, in turn, been hypothesized to relate to income inequality in the United States. A key but untested assumption of this hypothesis is that the association among these variables is distinct across socioeconomic classes. The purpose of the present research is to test that assumption. <i>N</i> ...[more]