The need of young adults to text now: Using delay discounting to assess informational choice

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 229-234

  Atchley, Paul ^a   Warden, Amelia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Delay discounting; Technology; Texting addiction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869872886     PISSN: 22113681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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