A comparison of four models of delay discounting in humans

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 256-259

  McKerchar, Todd L ^a   Green, Leonard ^b   Myerson, Joel ^b   Pickford, T Stephen ^a   Hill, Jade C ^a   Stout, Steven C ^a  

^a JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjusting amount; Delay discounting; Humans; Model comparison; Money; Sensitivity; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLLEGE STUDENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ALGORITHMS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64949172703     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.017     Document Type: Article

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