Social discounting rate is negatively correlated with fluid intelligence

• Published in: Personality and individual differences Vol. 59; pp. 44 - 49
• Main Authors: Osiński, Jerzy, Ostaszewski, Paweł, Karbowski, Adam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier 01.03.2014; Elsevier Ltd
• Subjects: Altruism; Behavior. Attitude; Biological and medical sciences; Costly signalling; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Intelligence; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Social discounting; Social psychology; Temporal discounting; Social discounting; Temporal discounting; Altruism; Intelligence; Costly signalling; Human; Cognition; Subjective evaluation; Social behavior; Social interaction; Correlation analysis; Cooperation; Reward

The purpose of the study was to verify a hypothesis, inspired by the handicap principle, of a positive relationship between subjective value of a hypothetical monetary reward shared with others and the level of fluid intelligence. Manipulation involved the amount of reward to be shared (small vs. la...