Time and outcome framing in intertemporal tradeoffs

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1192-1212

  Scholten, Marc ^a   Read, Daniel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delay speedup asymmetry; Discounting; Intertemporal choice; Outcome framing; Time framin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880656307     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031171     Document Type: Article

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