Time preferences are reliable across time-horizons and verbal versus experiential tasks

Individual differences in delay-discounting correlate with important real world outcomes, for example education, income, drug use, and criminality. As such, delay-discounting has been extensively studied by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists to reveal its behavioral and biological mechani...

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Main Authors: Evgeniya Lukinova, Yuyue Wang, Steven F Lehrer, Jeffrey C Erlich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/39656