Discounting of monetary rewards that are both delayed and probabilistic: Delay and probability combine multiplicatively, not additively

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 148-162

  Vanderveldt, Ariana ^a   Green, Leonard ^a   Myerson, Joel ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Hyperboloid function; Intertemporal; Probability discounting; Risk

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; DELAY DISCOUNTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REWARD; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

AREA UNDER CURVE; DELAY DISCOUNTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REWARD; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924749699     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000029     Document Type: Article

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