Living in the moment: Effects of time perspective and emotional valence of episodic thinking on delay discounting

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-19

  Lin, Henry ^a   Epstein, Leonard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Emotional valence; Episodic future thinking; Executive function; Time perspective

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893685061     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035705     Document Type: Article

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