Test-Retest Reliability of a Group-Administered Paper-Pencil Measure of Delay Discounting

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 345-355

  Beck, Robert C ^a   Triplett, Mary Frances ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

delay discounting reliability; paper pencil measure of discounting; reliability of k and AUC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE INSTABILITY SUBSCALES OF THE BARRATT IMPULSIVITY SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POPULATION GROUPS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350199647     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017078     Document Type: Article

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