University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, OntarioM1C 1A4, Canada.
Rotman School of Management, Toronto, OntarioM5S 3E6,
Behav Brain Sci. 2021 Apr 26;44:e46. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000953.
Current selves wield all the power in intertemporal tradeoffs. Although one set of future selves will make similar tradeoffs in the future, another self - who we term the cumulative future self - falls on the receiving end of those dictated decisions. How current selves commune with the cumulative future self determines whether the former heed pleas, from the latter, for patience.
现在的自我在跨时间的权衡中拥有全部的权力。虽然未来的某一组自我会在未来做出类似的权衡，但另一个自我——我们称之为累积未来的自我——则是这些既定决策的接受者。现在的自我与累积未来的自我交流的方式决定了前者是否会听从后者的耐心请求。
