Many behaviors posing significant risks to public health are characterized by repeated
decisions to forego better long-term outcomes in the face of immediate temptations. Steeply …

Intertemporal choices are ubiquitous: people often have to choose between outcomes
realized at different times. Although it is generally believed that people have stable …

Drawing on uncertainty theory, this study examines how to boost travel intention by
analyzing the impacts of uncertainty on the effectiveness of destination marketing messages …

In everyday decision-making, individuals make trade-offs between short-term and long-term
benefits or costs. Depending on many factors, individuals may choose to wait for larger …

Abstract Objective Eating Disorders (ED) and obesity are suggested to involve a spectrum of
self-regulatory control difficulties. Temporal discounting (TD) tasks have been used to …

The rate at which individuals discount future rewards (ie, discounting rate) is strongly
associated with their propensity for substance abuse as well as myriad other negative health …

Delay discounting describes the tendency to devalue delayed consequences or future
prospects. The degree to which an individual discounts delayed events appears trait-like in …

Many everyday choices are associated with both delayed and probabilistic outcomes. The
temporal attention hypothesis suggests that individuals' decision making can be improved …

This study compares discounting for money and health in a field study. We applied the direct
method, which measures discounting independent of utility, in a representative French …

Background: Episodic future thinking (EFT; ie, envisioning oneself in future contexts) has
been demonstrated to reduce discounting of future reward in healthy adults. While this …