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Robust relation between temporal discounting rates and body mass [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
When given the choice between $100 today and $110 in 1 week, certain people are more likely to choose the immediate, yet smaller reward. The present study examined the relations between temporal discounting rate and body mass while accounting for ...
Bradley, J.   +7 more
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Spatial discounting of food and social rewards in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2011
In temporal discounting, animals trade off the time to obtain a reward against the quality of a reward, choosing between a smaller reward available sooner versus a larger reward available later.
Nelly eMühlhoff   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discounting in LTL [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In recent years, there is growing need and interest in formalizing and reasoning about the quality of software and hardware systems. As opposed to traditional verification, where one handles the question of whether a system satisfies, or not, a given ...
D. Krob   +17 more
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Do ADHD Symptoms, Executive Function, and Study Strategies Predict Temporal Reward Discounting in College Students with Varying Levels of ADHD Symptoms? A Pilot Study

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between temporal reward discounting and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in college students.
Anouk Scheres, Mary V. Solanto
doaj   +1 more source

Encoding of Marginal Utility across Time in the Human Brain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Marginal utility theory prescribes the relationship between the objective property of the magnitude of rewards and their subjective value. Despite its pervasive influence, however, there is remarkably little direct empirical evidence for such a theory of
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Temporal discounting and self-continuity: Age-dependent patterns and implications

open access: yesActa Psychologica
Intertemporal decision-making is a common aspect of everyday life. People often prefer receiving a smaller immediate reward rather than the larger one that comes later, a behaviour known as temporal discounting.
Lulu Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Self-control ≠ Temporal Discounting

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Psychology
This paper explores self-control beyond the framework of time discounting, as is conventional in economics and decision research. Contrary to the notion that self-control failures stem from hyperbolic time discounting or present bias, we argue that self-control problems represent conflicts between the motivational thrusts of affects - i.e., emotions ...
George Loewenstein, Erin Carbone
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The globalizability of temporal discounting

open access: yes, 2021
Economic inequality is associated with extreme rates of temporal discounting, which is a behavioral pattern where individuals choose smaller, immediate financial gains over larger, delayed gains. Such patterns may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear if they are a function of choice preferences or norms, or rather absence of sufficient
Kai Ruggeri   +74 more
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Temporal Discounting for Multidimensional Economic Agents

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai: Series Informatica, 2021
Individuals frequently place a higher value on money and goods today than they would in the future. This is known as temporal or time discounting, and most economic models include discount functions to represent such utility over time.
Florentin BOTA
doaj   +1 more source

Low Dopamine D2/D3 Receptor Availability is Associated with Steep Discounting of Delayed Rewards in Methamphetamine Dependence. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BackgroundIndividuals with substance use disorders typically exhibit a predilection toward instant gratification with apparent disregard for the future consequences of their actions.
Ballard, Michael E   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

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