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SUBMITTER: Ersner-Hershfield H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2656877 | biostudies-other | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20081130 1
Despite increases in the human life span, people have not increased their rate of saving. In a phenomenon known as 'temporal discounting', people value immediate gains over future gains. According to a future self-continuity hypothesis, individuals perceive and treat the future self differently from the present self, and so might fail to save for their future. Neuroimaging offers a novel means of testing this hypothesis, since previous research indicates that self- vs other-judgments elicit acti ...[more]