Do people adjust career choices according to socioeconomic conditions?: an evolutionary analysis of future discounting

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Autor(a) principal: Leitão,Monique
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Guedes,Álvaro, Yamamoto,Maria Emília, Lopes,Fívia de Araújo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Psychology & Neuroscience (Online)
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Resumo: The ability to process environmental cues and make advantageous choices has been fundamental during human evolution. Discounting future rewards is a capacity of our evolved mind and could be useful for understanding career decisions. This paper investigated the relationship between real-life plans, career choices, and income indicators based on an evolutionary approach of future discounting. Study 1 analyzed the plans of 200 senior high school students, and Study 2 analyzed a database of 46,649 applicants to a Brazilian public university. The results demonstrated that lower income subjects made career decisions with quicker returns and smaller investments. They included a job in immediate plans more frequently than higher income students who planned to go to a university. Analyzing the applicants' choices, higher income subjects sought courses with greater entrance difficulty. We suggest that individuals adjust career plans and choices according to their socioeconomic conditions and assume different discounting rates by considering risks of failure and future gains.
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title Do people adjust career choices according to socioeconomic conditions?: an evolutionary analysis of future discounting
spellingShingle Do people adjust career choices according to socioeconomic conditions?: an evolutionary analysis of future discounting
Leitão,Monique
future discounting
career choice
evolutionary psychology
income
adolescent
title_short Do people adjust career choices according to socioeconomic conditions?: an evolutionary analysis of future discounting
title_full Do people adjust career choices according to socioeconomic conditions?: an evolutionary analysis of future discounting
title_fullStr Do people adjust career choices according to socioeconomic conditions?: an evolutionary analysis of future discounting
title_full_unstemmed Do people adjust career choices according to socioeconomic conditions?: an evolutionary analysis of future discounting
title_sort Do people adjust career choices according to socioeconomic conditions?: an evolutionary analysis of future discounting
author Leitão,Monique
author_facet Leitão,Monique
Guedes,Álvaro
Yamamoto,Maria Emília
Lopes,Fívia de Araújo
author_role author
author2 Guedes,Álvaro
Yamamoto,Maria Emília
Lopes,Fívia de Araújo
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Leitão,Monique
Guedes,Álvaro
Yamamoto,Maria Emília
Lopes,Fívia de Araújo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv future discounting
career choice
evolutionary psychology
income
adolescent
topic future discounting
career choice
evolutionary psychology
income
adolescent
description The ability to process environmental cues and make advantageous choices has been fundamental during human evolution. Discounting future rewards is a capacity of our evolved mind and could be useful for understanding career decisions. This paper investigated the relationship between real-life plans, career choices, and income indicators based on an evolutionary approach of future discounting. Study 1 analyzed the plans of 200 senior high school students, and Study 2 analyzed a database of 46,649 applicants to a Brazilian public university. The results demonstrated that lower income subjects made career decisions with quicker returns and smaller investments. They included a job in immediate plans more frequently than higher income students who planned to go to a university. Analyzing the applicants' choices, higher income subjects sought courses with greater entrance difficulty. We suggest that individuals adjust career plans and choices according to their socioeconomic conditions and assume different discounting rates by considering risks of failure and future gains.
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