As we often note, life is full of long- vs. short-term tradeoffs. Should you work hard and invest your money or go spend it on a new Ipod right now? New work by Vladis Griskevicius and colleagues suggests that how we solve this decision might just be influenced by who is around us. Or, more specifically, the number of women to men -- the available mate ratio for men. Read More...

Tags: Temporal Discounting