A long-running debate about the developmental trajectory of delay discounting has received
growing attention since 1994. Relevant theories, ranging from developmental psychology …

Psychopathic traits in youth may lead to adult criminal behaviors/psychopathy. The
Val158Met polymorphism of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) may influence the risk for …

Background A growing number of studies have investigated delay discounting, a behavioral
economic index of impulsivity, and its relevance to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder …

Whether to continue to exploit a source of reward, or to search for a new one of potentially
greater value, is a fundamental and underconstrained decision. Recent computational …

A variety of evidence suggests that, among humans, the individual tendency to choose
immediate rewards (“Now”) over larger, delayed rewards (“Later”), or Now bias, varies with …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Estradiol and Cognition”. Variations in the steroid
hormone 17ß-estradiol (E2) may promote intra-individual differences in reward seeking …

This review evaluates the viability of delayed reward discounting (DRD), an index of how
much an individual devalues a future reward based on its delay in time, for genetically …

Converging evidence links individual differences in mesolimbic and mesocortical dopamine
(DA) to variation in the tendency to choose immediate rewards (“Now”) over larger, delayed …

A standard assumption in the delay discounting literature is that individuals who exhibit
steeper discounting of hypothetical rewards also experience greater difficulty deferring …

Decision-making plays a pivotal role in daily life as impairments in processes underlying
decision-making often lead to an inability to make profitable long-term decisions. As a case …