A generalizability study of time discounting: some people react more strongly to domain differences than others

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-50

  König, Cornelius J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Domain independence; Generalizability analysis; Temporal decision making; Time discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 59749094215     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.68.1.43     Document Type: Article

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