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Adolescent impatience decreases with increased frontostriatal connectivity [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 SignificanceCompared with children and adults, teens and young adults often exhibit greater impulsivity and corresponding increases in emergency room visits, accidents from drug or alcohol use, and increased mortality risk. However, it remains poorly understood how increased impulsivity during adolescence may be explained in terms of brain and ...
van den Bos, Wouter +3 more
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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolecents' Field Behavior [PDF]
, 2010 We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found
Sutter, Matthias +3 more
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A measure of inconsistencies in intertemporal choice.
PLoS ONE, 2019 The aim of this paper is to derive an index able to indicate if a discount function exhibits increasing or decreasing impatience, and, even, in the last case, whether the decreasing impatience is moderate or strong.
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +1 more
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Nursing Open, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Aim This study aimed to examine the association of job‐related stressors and insomnia; to determine the association of psychological capital and insomnia; and to explore whether psychological capital mediates the association between job‐related stressors and insomnia among Chinese nurses. Design A cross‐sectional questionnaire survey.
Juan Du +8 more
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A Solvable Time-Inconsistent Principal-Agent Problem
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2018 We consider the dynamic contract model with time inconsistency preference of principal-agent problem to study the influence of the time inconsistency preference on the optimal effort and the optimal reward mechanism.
Chao Li, Zhijian Qiu
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Observed and Normative Discount Functions in Addiction and other Diseases
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2017 The aim of this paper is to find a suitable discount function able to describe the progression of a certain addiction or disease under treatment as a discounting process.
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +2 more
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Decreasing Marginal Impatience and Capital Accumulation in a Two-country World Economy [PDF]
Decreasing Marginal Impatience and Capital Accumulation in a Two-country World EconomyThis research is the Örst to examine dynamic general equilibrium in a growing two-country economy under decreasing marginal impatience (DMI). The stability condition is shown to be more restrictive than in the case of an endowment economy and/or under increasing marginal impatience (IMI). By analyzing global-economy adjustment to time preference shocks,
Ikeda, Shinsuke, Hirose, Ken-ichi
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Uncertainty Breeds Decreasing Impatience: The Role of Risk Preferences in Time Discounting [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Future events are uncertain by their very nature. Therefore, people's risk preferences are likely to play a role in the valuation of allegedly guaranteed future outcomes. We show that future uncertainty conjointly with people's proneness to nonlinear probability weighting generates a unifying framework for explaining many anomalies in intertemporal ...
Epper, Thomas +2 more
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Strongly decreasing impatience.
, 2019 Strongly decreasing impatience.
Salvador Cruz Rambaud (6877712) +1 more
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Survey of time preference, delay discounting models [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2013 The paper surveys over twenty models of delay discounting (also known as temporal discounting, time preference, time discounting), that psychologists and economists have put forward to explain the way people actually trade off time and money.
John R. Doyle
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