Testing the reliability of delay discounting of ten commodities using the fill-in-the-blank method

Psychological Record

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-126

  Weatherly, Jeffrey N ^a   Derenne, Adam ^a   Terrell, Heather K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Delay discounting; Different commodities; Fill in the blank method; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951909058     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03395749     Document Type: Article

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