Temporal discounting when the choice is between two delayed rewards

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1121-1133

  Green, Leonard ^a   Myerson, Joel ^a   Macaux, Eric W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Decision making; Delayed rewards; Discounting

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; REWARD; TIME;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27944477394     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.5.1121     Document Type: Review

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