Delay discounting of different outcomes: Review and theory

AL Odum, RJ Becker, JM Haynes… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Steep delay discounting is characterized by a preference for small immediate outcomes
relative to larger delayed outcomes and is predictive of drug abuse, risky sexual behaviors …

The problems with delay discounting: A critical review of current practices and clinical applications

AJ Bailey, RJ Romeu, PR Finn - Psychological Medicine, 2021 - cambridge.org
Delay discounting paradigms have gained widespread popularity across clinical research.
Given the prevalence in the field, researchers have set lofty expectations for the importance …

Temporal discounting as a candidate behavioral marker of obesity

WK Bickel, R Freitas-Lemos, DC Tomlinson… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Although obesity is a result of processes operating at multiple levels, most forms result from
decision-making behavior. The aim of this review was to examine the candidacy of temporal …

Deliberating trade-offs with the future

A Bulley, DL Schacter - Nature human behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
Many fundamental choices in life are intertemporal: they involve trade-offs between sooner
and later outcomes. In recent years there has been a surge of interest into how people make …

Age effects on delay discounting across the lifespan: A meta-analytical approach to theory comparison and model development.

J Lu, J Yao, Z Zhou, XT Wang - Psychological Bulletin, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
A long-running debate about the developmental trajectory of delay discounting has received
growing attention since 1994. Relevant theories, ranging from developmental psychology …

Episodic future thinking improves intertemporal choice and food choice in individuals with higher weight: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

E Colton, M Connors, J Mahlberg… - Obesity …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Episodic future thinking (EFT) strengthens self‐regulation abilities by increasing the
perceived value of long‐term reinforcements and reducing impulsive choice in delay …

The catecholamine precursor Tyrosine reduces autonomic arousal and decreases decision thresholds in reinforcement learning and temporal discounting

D Mathar, M Erfanian Abdoust… - PLoS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Supplementation with the catecholamine precursor L-Tyrosine might enhance cognitive
performance, but overall findings are mixed. Here, we investigate the effect of a single dose …

Curiosity as the impulse to know: common behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying curiosity and impulsivity

CB Marvin, E Tedeschi, D Shohamy - Current Opinion in Behavioral …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•There is strong overlap between impulsivity and curiosity, in terms of their neural
substrates and the ways they're measured behaviorally.•The similarities between these …

Decision making and impulsivity in young adult cannabis users

BF O'Donnell, PD Skosnik, WP Hetrick… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aims: Chronic cannabis users show impairments on laboratory measures of decision
making which reflect risk factors for initiation and continued use of cannabis. However, the …

Value-based decision-making predicts alcohol use and related problems in young men

J Petzold, A Hentschel, H Chen… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Alcohol consumption is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide,
disproportionately affecting young men. Heavy episodic drinking is particularly prevalent …