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 …

Objective: Translational research on addictive behaviors viewed as molar behavioral
allocation is critically reviewed. This work relates rates of behavior to rates of reinforcement …

Behavior analysts make dozens of practice-related decisions every day. Past research has
extensively examined practice-related decision making by medical and other healthcare …

Delay discounting, the decrease in outcome value as a function of delay to receipt, is an
extensive area of research. How delays are framed (ie, temporal framing), as well as the …

Problem solvers often need to choose between adapting a current solution and exchanging
it for a new one. However, previous studies have not considered how such decisions might …

The rate of delay discounting exhibited by individuals has been experimentally altered by
manipulating the way in which time is described, a specific application of the framing effect …

Literature concerning operant behavioral economics shows a strong preference for the
coefficient of determination (R 2) metric to (a) describe how well an applied model accounts …

Background: Delay discounting quantifies an individual's preference for smaller, short-term
rewards over larger, long-term rewards and represents a transdiagnostic factor associated …

Social discount functions have been used as a quantitative description of altruistic choice. In
support of kin altruism theories, previous research has found that participants discounted …

The current study analyzed the effects of three frames of reward magnitude—quantity,
volume, and duration—on the rate at which college students discounted hypothetical …