Delay discounting: Concepts and measures

Psychology and Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-146

  da Matta, Adriana ^a   Gonçalves, Fábio Leyser ^b   Bizarro, Lisiane ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decision making; Delay discounting; Experimental tasks; Impulsiveness

Indexed keywords

APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; DELAY DISCOUNTING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84874827157     PISSN: 19843054     EISSN: 19833288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3922/j.psns.2012.2.03     Document Type: Article

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