“Bitcoin now”: temporal discounting in Bitcoin holders [PDF]
IntroductionCryptocurrency investment and trading are rapidly growing activities due to the development of applications and platforms that offer fast, continuous, and easy entry into the cryptocurrency world.
Mohamad El Haj +4 more
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The globalizability of temporal discounting. [PDF]
Abstract Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather the absence of sufficient resources for ...
Ruggeri K +170 more
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Association of cognition with temporal discounting in community based older persons [PDF]
Background The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that cognitive function is negatively associated with temporal discounting in old age. Methods Participants were 388 community-dwelling older persons without dementia from the Rush Memory ...
Boyle Patricia A +6 more
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Temporal discounting mediates the relationship between socio-economic status and social trust [PDF]
Social trust and income are associated both within and across countries, such that higher income typically correlates with increased trust. While this correlation is well-documented, the psychological mechanisms sustaining this relationship remain poorly
Léonard Guillou +2 more
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Temporal discounting in adolescents and adults with Tourette syndrome. [PDF]
Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with hyperactivity in dopaminergic networks. Dopaminergic hyperactivity in the basal ganglia has previously been linked to increased sensitivity to positive reinforcement and increases in ...
Canan Beate Schüller +10 more
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Gambling Environment Exposure Increases Temporal Discounting but Improves Model-Based Control in Regular Slot-Machine Gamblers [PDF]
Gambling disorder is a behavioral addiction that negatively impacts personal finances, work, relationships and mental health. In this pre-registered study (https://osf.io/5ptz9/) we investigated the impact of real-life gambling environments on two ...
Ben Wagner, David Mathar, Jan Peters
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Temporal discounting predicts procrastination in the real world [PDF]
People procrastinate, but why? One long-standing hypothesis is that temporal discounting drives procrastination: in a task with a distant future reward, the discounted future reward fails to provide sufficient motivation to initiate work early.
Pei Yuan Zhang, Wei Ji Ma
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Temporal discounting and inter-temporal choice in rhesus monkeys [PDF]
Humans and animals are more likely to take an action leading to an immediate reward than actions with delayed rewards of similar magnitudes. Although such devaluation of delayed rewards has been almost universally described by hyperbolic discount ...
Jaewon Hwang, Soyoun Kim, Daeyeol Lee
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The catecholamine precursor Tyrosine reduces autonomic arousal and decreases decision thresholds in reinforcement learning and temporal discounting. [PDF]
Supplementation with the catecholamine precursor L-Tyrosine might enhance cognitive performance, but overall findings are mixed. Here, we investigate the effect of a single dose of tyrosine (2g) vs. placebo on two catecholamine-dependent trans-diagnostic
David Mathar +4 more
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Similar psychological distance reduces temporal discounting. [PDF]
People often prefer inferior options in the present even when options in the future are more lucrative. Five studies investigated whether decision making could be improved by manipulating construal level and psychological distance. In Studies 1a, 1b, and
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