This paper discusses the discounted utility (DU) model: its historical development,
underlying assumptions, and “anomalies”-the empirical regularities that are inconsistent with …

People's current identity is constructed not only in the present moment but also by looking
back to past selves and forward to future selves. In this article, we review research on the …

This article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of
serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital …

This Article develops both a framework for a theory of desistance from crime and an
analytical strategy with which to examine desistance. With respect to the former, an identity …

With life expectancy dramatically increasing throughout much of the world, people have to
make choices with a longer future in mind than they ever had to before. Yet, many indicators …

The baby boom of 1945-65 produced the biggest, richest generation that Britain has ever
known. Today, at the peak of their power and wealth, baby boomers now run our country; by …

The tendency to live in the here and now, and the failure to think through the delayed
consequences of behavior, is one of the strongest individual-level correlates of delinquency …

Four experiments showed that the decisions people make for future selves and other people
are similar to each other and different from their decisions for present selves. Experiments …

One of the prevailing themes in this volume is that people's mental simulations regarding
future events are associated with a fascinating and complex array of biological, neurological …

To the extent that people feel more continuity between their present and future selves, they
are more likely to make decisions with the future self in mind. The current studies examined …