Editing Time preference (section)

=== Early life stress ===
A meta-analysis of early life stress, time preference, and prosocial preferences found that early life stress is predictive of time preference. The theory goes that early life stress affects our ability to think about the future. If you have more early life stress, you become more present focused to manage the current situation. The theory was confirmed in the analysis, wherein more early life stress was significantly correlated with present orientation on a future discounting task.<ref name=":03"/> Early life stress was also shown to be predictive of lower prosocial preferences.