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Stuff goes wrong, so act now

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Michala Iben Riis-Vestergaard  and
Johannes Haushofer
Michala Iben Riis-Vestergaard
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. michalar@princeton.eduhaushofer@princeton.eduhttp://www.princeton.edu/joha/
Johannes Haushofer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. michalar@princeton.eduhaushofer@princeton.eduhttp://www.princeton.edu/joha/
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Abstract

Pepper & Nettle make an ambitious and compelling attempt to isolate a common cause of what they call the behavioral constellation of deprivation. We agree with the authors that limited control can indeed help explain part of the difference in observed present-oriented behavior between the poor and the rich. However, we suggest that mortality risk is not the primary mechanism leading to this apparent impatience.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e340
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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