George Ainslie

8.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
60 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

George Ainslie is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, George Ainslie has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in General Decision Sciences, 23 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 12 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in George Ainslie's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (27 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers) and Behavioral and Psychological Studies (12 papers). George Ainslie is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (27 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers) and Behavioral and Psychological Studies (12 papers). George Ainslie collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Australia. George Ainslie's co-authors include John Monterosso, R. J. Herrnstein, Shan Luo, Jiansong Xu, Edythe D. London, Catherine P. Domier, Kent Bach, Bernard T. Engel, Gal Zauberman and Xiuping Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Psychological Bulletin and American Economic Review.

In The Last Decade

George Ainslie

58 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Specious reward: A behavioral theory of impulsiveness and... 1974 2026 1991 2008 1975 1974 2001 1992 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Specious reward: A behavioral theory of impulsiveness and impulse control.
    1975 1.9k citations George Ainslie profile →
  2. IMPULSE CONTROL IN PIGEONS1
    1974 550 citations George Ainslie Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior profile →
  3. Breakdown of Will
    2001 538 citations George Ainslie Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  4. Picoeconomics: The Strategic Interaction of Successive Motivational States within the Person
    1992 487 citations George Ainslie profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Ainslie United States 26 2.1k 1.6k 1.2k 1.0k 1000 60 5.5k
Kris N. Kirby United States 20 3.0k 1.4× 1.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.6× 1.2k 1.2× 1.6k 1.6× 31 6.7k
Gregory J. Madden United States 38 2.6k 1.3× 1.6k 1.0× 2.3k 1.9× 606 0.6× 1.5k 1.5× 111 6.9k
Michael Lamport Commons United States 21 942 0.5× 900 0.6× 559 0.5× 371 0.4× 688 0.7× 140 3.5k
Tali Sharot United Kingdom 41 931 0.4× 2.9k 1.8× 1.2k 1.0× 365 0.4× 1.6k 1.6× 86 6.7k
Rui Mata Switzerland 32 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.7× 584 0.5× 384 0.4× 599 0.6× 88 3.4k
Benedetto De Martino United Kingdom 22 1.1k 0.5× 2.1k 1.3× 330 0.3× 337 0.3× 589 0.6× 34 3.4k
Mónica Rodríguez United States 18 555 0.3× 783 0.5× 981 0.8× 188 0.2× 973 1.0× 34 4.3k
Maggie E. Toplak Canada 40 1.1k 0.5× 2.4k 1.5× 476 0.4× 184 0.2× 1.4k 1.4× 82 6.8k
Alan G. Sanfey Netherlands 42 1.6k 0.8× 6.5k 4.0× 838 0.7× 393 0.4× 2.7k 2.7× 116 10.7k
Jonathan A. Fugelsang Canada 40 843 0.4× 2.2k 1.3× 408 0.3× 217 0.2× 1.2k 1.2× 121 5.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ainslie, George. (2022). Behavioral construction of the future.. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 37(1). 13–24. 2 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (2020). Willpower with and without effort. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44. e30–e30. 36 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (2017). De Gustibus Disputare: Hyperbolic delay discounting integrates five approaches to impulsive choice. Journal of Economic Methodology. 24(2). 166–189. 6 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (2015). Psychopathology arises from intertemporal bargaining as well as from emotional trauma. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 38. e2–e2. 1 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (2013). Intertemporal Bargaining in Addiction. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 4. 63–63. 13 indexed citations
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Luo, Shan, et al.. (2011). Moderators of the association between brain activation and farsighted choice. NeuroImage. 59(2). 1469–1477. 49 indexed citations
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Hofmeyr, Andre, et al.. (2010). The relationship between addiction and reward bundling: an experiment comparing smokers and non‐smokers. Addiction. 106(2). 402–409. 40 indexed citations
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Luo, Shan, et al.. (2009). Behavioral and Neural Evidence of Incentive Bias for Immediate Rewards Relative to Preference-Matched Delayed Rewards. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(47). 14820–14827. 77 indexed citations
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Monterosso, John, et al.. (2006). Frontoparietal cortical activity of methamphetamine‐dependent and comparison subjects performing a delay discounting task. Human Brain Mapping. 28(5). 383–393. 233 indexed citations
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Monterosso, John & George Ainslie. (2006). The behavioral economics of will in recovery from addiction. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 90. S100–S111. 48 indexed citations
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Monterosso, John, et al.. (2002). The fragility of cooperation: A false feedback study of a sequential iterated prisoner's dilemma. Journal of Economic Psychology. 23(4). 437–448. 27 indexed citations
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Elster, Jon, Karl Ove Moene, George Ainslie, et al.. (1999). Getting Hooked. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 43 indexed citations
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Monterosso, John & George Ainslie. (1999). Beyond discounting: possible experimental models of impulse control. Psychopharmacology. 146(4). 339–347. 247 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (1997). If belief is a behavior, what controls it?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 20(1). 103–104. 1 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (1995). A Utility-Maximizing Mechanism for Vicarious Reward. Rationality and Society. 7(4). 393–403. 8 indexed citations
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Potter, Paul C., et al.. (1993). IgE specific immune responses to an African grass (Kikuyu, Pennisetum clandestinum). Clinical & Experimental Allergy. 23(7). 581–586. 18 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (1993). Inhalational injuries produced by smoke and nitrogen dioxide. Respiratory Medicine. 87(3). 169–174. 6 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (1991). Derivation of "Rational" Economic Behavior from Hyperbolic Discount Curves. American Economic Review. 81(2). 334–340. 145 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (1985). Rationality and the emotions; a picoeconomic approach. Social Science Information. 24(2). 355–374. 3 indexed citations
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Ainslie, George. (1974). IMPULSE CONTROL IN PIGEONS1. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 21(3). 485–489. 550 indexed citations breakdown →

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