Rate of temporal discounting decreases with amount of reward

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 715-723

  Green, Leonard ^a   Myerson, Joel ^a   McFadden, Edward ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TIME;

EID: 0030808487     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211314     Document Type: Article

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