Associations between a one-shot delay discounting measure and age, income, education and real-world impulsive behavior

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 973-978

  Reimers, Stian ^a   Maylor, Elizabeth A ^b   Stewart, Neil ^b   Chater, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Delay discounting; Drug use; Education; Income; Obesity; Sexual behavior; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849108764     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.07.026     Document Type: Article

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