Delay discounting: Interactions between personality and cognitive ability

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1646-1650

  Hirsh, Jacob B ^a   Morisano, Dominique ^b   Peterson, Jordan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big Five; Decision making; Delay discounting; Delay of gratification; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349146361     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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