Question-based assessments of delay discounting: Do respondents spontaneously incorporate uncertainty into their valuations for delayed rewards?

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 351-357

  Patak, Michele ^a   Reynolds, Brady ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Certainty; Delay discounting; Humans; Impulsivity; Question based assessments; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD; UNCERTAINTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 33845472464     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2006.03.034     Document Type: Article

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