The Malleability of Intertemporal Choice

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 64-74

  Lempert, Karolina M ^a   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Context; Framing; Intertemporal choice; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

AFFECT; CONTEXT; FRAMING; INTER-TEMPORAL CHOICES; TEMPORAL DISCOUNTING;

DECISION MAKING;

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FRAMING BIAS; HUMAN; INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD; REVIEW; STRESS; THINKING; DELAY DISCOUNTING; TIME FACTOR;

DELAY DISCOUNTING; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84952637733     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.09.005     Document Type: Review

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