Weighing Outcomes by Time or Against Time? Evaluation Rules in Intertemporal Choice

Cognitive Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 399-438

  Scholten, Marc ^a   Read, Daniel ^b   Sanborn, Adam ^c  

^a European University   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Human experimentation; Hyperbolic discounting; Intertemporal choice; Mathematical modeling; Psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; DELAY DISCOUNTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DELAY DISCOUNTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899073900     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12104     Document Type: Article

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