Social discounting and delay discounting

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-43

  Rachlin, Howard ^a   Jones, Bryan A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Discounting; Hyperbolic discounting; Magnitude estimation; Probability discounting; Social discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849130676     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.567     Document Type: Article

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