Age Differences in Temporal Discounting: The Role of Dispositional Affect and Anticipated Emotions

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 274-284

  Löckenhoff, Corinna E ^a   O'Donoghue, Ted ^a   Dunning, David ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Anticipated emotions; Intertemporal choice; Temporal discounting; Time discounting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL DISCOUNTING;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959299685     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023280     Document Type: Article

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