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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Delayed gratification"”.
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Control of intertemporal choice by dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons
While animals tend to prefer immediate rewards to delayed ones [1], delayed gratification is often advantageous [2]. Appropriate choice about future rewards is critical for survival. The dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons have been long implicated in the control of temporal discounting of reward [3] …
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Two Essays Analyzing the Behavioral Economics Underlying Health Decisions: Delay Discounting and Crowding Out Effect
… Discounting?," studies delay discounting, or delayed gratification, which is an important research topic because it plays a role in producing numerous health outcomes, such as obesity. It is important to understand how the delay discounting process relates to unhealthy diets. People who …
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Individual Differences in Adults' Self-Report of Negative Affect and Effortful Control: Consequences for Physiology, Emotion, and Behavior During Regulatory Tasks
… (Stroop, video game, hand cold pressor, and delayed gratification), the latter in which emotion suppression instructions were given. Using the Adult Temperament Questionnaire (ATQ) to screen 656 subjects, 24 males and 53 females were recruited to take part in the second phase of the study, …
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Workaholism: how does it impact on people’s lives?
… (obsessive thinking, compulsive finishing and delayed gratification). Workaholism scores were stable across time and held a consistent temporal relationship to work and leisure behaviours and intrapersonal and interpersonal well-being. Additionally, while workaholics evidenced differing work …
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Individual differences in the frontal-striatal reward network : decision-making and psychiatric disease
… the conflict between immediate rewards and delayed gratification. Temporal discounting preferences reflect how a person makes decisions that involve tradeoffs over time. A fundamental question is how people vary and what accounts for this variation in temporal discounting preferences, both …
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Modern English Football Hooliganism: A Quantitative Exploration in Criminological Theory
… responsibility, achievement and performance, delayed gratification, rationality and planning, etiquette and the cultivation of social skills, self-control, wholesome leisure, and respect for property. These middle-class values have been modified into a shorter set of values; constructive …
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An Organizational Model for a Coordinated Program of Music Ministry for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North American and Europe
… analogues of faith action is the concept of delayed gratification, aspiration toward spiritual maturity. Music can function as a training school for spiritual maturity. (8) One of the major tasks of music in Seventh-day Adventist homes and churches is to express and reinforce the basic …
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Player Capability and Locally Sub-Optimal Behavior in Strategic Games
… psychological and social phenomena, such as delayed gratification, threats, and incentivized cooperation. The central research question in this part is when can locally suboptimal behavior arise from rational play in finitely repeated games. To this end, we prove the first sufficient and …
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Nicotine Addiction and Impulsive Behaviour: Disentangling the Relationship
… displaying a preference for immediate over delayed gratification (impulsive choice) and a loss of inhibitory control (disinhibition) (Madden et al.,1997). To date, our understanding of the complex association between impulsivity and drug addiction has been hindered by the cross sectional …
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Measuring pathways to youth violence and the possible effects of a sports-based development intervention on youth in South Africa
… value of investment (of schooling efforts) for delayed gratification. This violence potential and weak school attachment manifests in greater future substance abuse and, in turn, much greater exposure to and acceptance of instrumental violence and criminal associations. Intervention …
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Altruism and the role of affect: an investigation into the causal effects of positive emotions and its rationality on altruism
… outcomes in terms of risk taking, tolerance for delayed gratification, civic engagement, and economic opportunity. In chapter three, I investigate the causal effect of positive affect on altruism. I employed two estimation strategies where in the first strategy, I used an instrumental variable …