Temporal discounting in choice between delayed rewards: The role of age and income

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-84

  Green, Leonard ^a,b   Myerson, Joel ^a   Lichtman, David ^a   Rosen, Suzanne ^a   Fry, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; INCOME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REWARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029925967     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.11.1.79     Document Type: Article

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