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Hyperbolic discounting lets empathy be a motivated process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

George Ainslie  and
John Monterosso
George Ainslie
Affiliation:
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, PA 19320 George.Ainslie@med.va.gov http://www.picoeconomics.com
John Monterosso
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 jmont@psych.upenn.edu
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Abstract

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The Perception-Action Model (PAM) is a cogent theory of how organisms get information about others' experiences. However, such a stimulus-driven mechanism does not handle well the complex choices that humans face about how to respond to this information. Hyperbolic reward discounting permits a reward-driven mechanism for both how aversive empathic experiences can compete for attention and how pleasurable empathic experiences are constrained.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 20 - 21
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press