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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Temporal discounting"”.
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Temporal Discounting of Losses
… five papers to better understand how to measure discounting, how and why discounting of losses differs from discounting of gains, and how to apply research on discounting to public policy. Paper 1 compares two common methods of measuring discounting - titration and matching - with a dynamic …
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Temporal Discounting: A comparison of adjusting-amount and adjusting-delay procedures
… that the underlying decision-making process: discounting) is identical regardless of the procedure used, and that all would converge on similar indifference points. For each of the experiments, participants were initially tested on one of the adjusting tasks: Adjusting Immediate Amount, …
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Executive Functioning Markers of Functional Decline and Health Vulnerability in Older Adults: The Role of Temporal Discounting
Temporal discounting (TD), a behavioral economic index of the tendency to devalue rewards or outcomes as delay to their receipt increases, captures future-oriented decision-making, self-control, and reward valuation. However, despite the well-documented predictive utility of TD in a variety of …
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Individual differences in the frontal-striatal reward network : decision-making and psychiatric disease
… 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 behaviorally and …
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Group Matching and Group Contingencies
… individual performance in matching rations, a temporal discounting measure was administered to participants (Beck & Triplett, 2009). Scores were transformed into area-under-the-curve values and correlated with total points earned. Participants were divided into teams based on their scores on a …
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Roles of orbitofrontal and insular cortices in processing reward variables
… it difficult to estimate the precise form of temporal discounting in animals. In the present study, we sought to characterize temporal discounting in rats and to test the role of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) in this process. Rats were trained in a novel intertemporal choice task in which the …
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The Effect of Episodic Future Thought on Delay Discounting, Outcome Expectancies, and Alcohol Use among Risky College Drinkers
… users may have little impact on behavior due to temporal discounting (Mazur, 1987), in which delayed rewards are devalued relative to more proximal rewards, even if such distal rewards actually provide considerably more value. Delay discounting may be manipulated using a variety of means, one of …
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Behavioural determinants of human and planetary health: the role of nature contact and nature connectedness.
… affect, negative affect, community cohesion and temporal discounting. Studies 1-3 used representative cross-sectional datasets to systematically investigate the associations between different types of nature contact, nature connectedness and behavioural outcomes. Study 4 used a bespoke …
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Is It Time? Examining the Effects of Episodic Imagining on Reward Discounting
… about the future, as documented on tests of intertemporal choice where personal cueing greatly reduces future reward discounting. Despite this robust finding, it is unclear whether this modulatory effect is due to the induction of episodic imagining. If so, the effect should not generalize to …
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Control of intertemporal choice by dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons
… have been long implicated in the control of temporal discounting of reward [3] [4], but it is not clear whether their activities in fact direct the decision making process. In this thesis, I designed a cued intertemporal choice task for mice that allows the combination of highly specific …
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Temporal and Contextual Decision Making: Extending Experimental Choice Research to Clinical Psychology
… study investigated the relationship between six discounting assessment tasks using clinically relevant content and measures of social aspects of psychological functioning. The first contextual discounting task assessed discounting involving variables related to the costs and benefits of entering …
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Hedonia and Eudaimonia: Associations with Academic Success, Wellbeing, and Neuropsychological Functioning
… “hot” executive functioning (Iowa Gambling Task, Temporal Discounting Task). Semester GPA was collected from school records. Eudaimonia was significantly positively associated with GPA. Eudaimonia was also significantly negatively associated with depression, and individuals living the Full Life …
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Barriers and Cognitive Biases in the Monitoring-Based Commissioning Process
… information overload, professional bias, and temporal discounting. The success of choice architecture in other energy efficiency decisions is used to offer suggestions for ways to overcome these cognitive biases. This manuscript can be used by practitioners to better understand potential …
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Peripheral Inflammation and Activity within Corticostriatal Reward Circuitry: Interactive Roles in Components of Anhedonia during Adolescence
… anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, temporal discounting of reward value, and reward sensitivity) were differentially associated with the interplay between inflammation and reward-related corticostriatal activity. The results also indicated that the interaction between higher levels …
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The Culture of Green: The Role of Cultural Worldviews, Psychological Connectedness, Time Discounting, and Social Norms in Environmental Decisions
… in perceptions of time looking at intertemporal decisions, social norms, policy preferences, and behaviors in the environmental domain. Looking closely at the environmental domain allows for a unique opportunity to examine whether or not cultural worldviews or social norms are motivating …
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A Comparison of Discounting Parameters Obtained Through Two Different Adjusting Procedures: Bisection and Up-Down.
The study compared delay discounting in adult humans using two different methods of adjustments. Both methods used hypothetical choices of monetary outcomes. One involved adjustments using a fixed sequence of ascending or descending amounts, the other used a bisection algorithm in which the changes …
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Future thinking and medicine adherence: a study of typically developing and chronically ill adolescents
… future-oriented decision making during an intertemporal choice task.<br/>Chapter 4 investigates the potential link between future thinking and treatment adherence in adolescents with chronic illness and reveals that young people who are more future-oriented in their decision making are more …
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Solange ein Motivationsproblem, bis ein Zeitproblem entsteht? Untersuchung der Lernmotivation und des Lernverhaltens Studierender im Kontext zeitlicher Bezugspunkte und multipler Handlungsoptionen
… Arbeit auf das Konzept der zeitlichen Abzinsung (temporal discounting) als potenziellen Mechanismus zur Beschreibung systematischer Veränderungen von Motivation und Lernverhalten vor zeitlichen Bezugspunkten: Zeitliche Abzinsung beschreibt das Phänomen, dass der Wert eines Ereignisses oder eines …