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The future of an illusion: Self and its control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Peter R. Killeen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104. killeen@asu.edu

Abstract

Rachlin introduces a new theory before exhausting its predecessor. His earlier model of future-discounting may be developed by integrating over the duration of extended rewards and punishers. The difference in value of an event within a pattern over the event in isolation derives from the deprivation provided by the pattern; yet the pattern attracts because acute rewards are more potent than incremental deprivations.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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