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Howard Rachlin
Researcher at Stony Brook University
Publications - 171
Citations - 15477
Howard Rachlin is an academic researcher from Stony Brook University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Teleological behaviorism & Prisoner's dilemma. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 171 publications receiving 14811 citations. Previous affiliations of Howard Rachlin include State University of New York System & Harvard University.
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Subjective probability and delay.
TL;DR: Human subjects indicated their preference between a hypothetical $1,000 reward available with various probabilities or delays and a certain reward of variable amount available immediately and the function relating the amount had the same general shape (hyperbolic) as the function found by Mazur (1987) to describe pigeons' delay discounting.
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Commitment, choice and self-control
Howard Rachlin,Leonard Green +1 more
TL;DR: The preference for the large delayed alternative with long durations of T parallels everyday instances of advance commitment to a given course of action and may be seen as a prototype for self-control.
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Choice as time allocation.
TL;DR: The present results, together with related research, suggest that the ratio of time spent in two activities equals the ratios of the "values" of the activities.
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The Science of Self-Control
TL;DR: In this article, Howard Rachlin argues that the only way to achieve such control and ultimately happiness is through the development of harmonious patterns of behavior, which is called the primrose path.