Impatience and grades: Delay-discount rates correlate negatively with college GPA

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-222

  Kirby, Kris N ^a   Winston, Gordon C ^a   Santiesteban, Mariana ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Delay discounting; Impulsiveness; Reinforcement delay

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144371951     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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