Amount of Reward Has Opposite Effects on the Discounting of Delayed and Probabilistic Outcomes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 418-427

  Green, Leonard ^a,c   Myerson, Joel ^a   Ostaszewski, Pawel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REWARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REWARD;

EID: 0033088625     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.25.2.418     Document Type: Article

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