Psychiatry and Psychology

Delay Discounting

The tendency to devalue an outcome as a function of its temporal delay or probability of achievement. It can be evaluated in a psychological paradigm that involves the choice between receiving a smaller immediate reward or a larger delayed reward, and may be used to provide a measure of impulsive behavior.

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Abstract

The tendency to devalue an outcome as a function of its temporal delay or probability of achievement. It can be evaluated in a psychological paradigm that involves the choice between receiving a smaller immediate reward or a larger delayed reward, and may be used to provide a measure of impulsive behavior.

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  • Intertemporal Decision Making
  • Intertemporal Decision-Making
  • Intertemporal Preferences
  • Temporal Discounting
  • Decision Making, Intertemporal
  • Decision-Making, Intertemporal
  • Discounting, Delay
  • Discounting, Temporal
  • Intertemporal Preference
  • Preference, Intertemporal
  • Preferences, Intertemporal
  • Deferred Gratification
  • Delayed Gratification
  • Gratification, Deferred
  • Gratification, Delayed

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, drug effects, ethics, physiology, radiation effects.

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2015

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  1. F02w.463w.785w.373w.346w.700w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Delay Discounting. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D065786. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D065786
  2. Delay Discounting. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference
  3. Delay Discounting. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186412