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What about the behavioral constellation of advantage?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Jeremy Freese
Jeremy Freese*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2047. jfreese@stanford.edu
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Abstract

Many short-sighted behaviors are more common among poorer people. These behaviors are neither evolutionarily nor historically unusual and have strong contemporary encouragement. The bigger puzzle is their lower frequency among the affluent. The behaviors also have clear cultural and normative aspects that limit the usefulness of strictly individualist theories.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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