The combined effects of delay and probability in discounting

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-155

  Yi, Richard ^a   de la Piedad, Xochitl ^b   Bickel, Warren K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Human; Probability discounting; Self control

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; REWARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MOTIVATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REWARD; TIME FACTORS; TOKEN ECONOMY;

EID: 33747336287     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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