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Discounting of Real Juice Outcomes |
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Presentation |
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Impulsivity is the tendency to behave in a way that is non-maximizing and often involves the lack of foresight of the consequences of one’s actions. One type of impulsivity is delay discounting and is defined as the tendency to choose a smaller though sooner alternative (SS) over a larger reward delivered after a delay (LL; Ainslie, 1975). Delay discounting has become well known and researched in recent years due to the findings that steep delay discounting (i.e., rewards lose their value relatively quickly when a delay is imposed) for both money and non-monetary outcomes dissociates substance abusers from matched controls (see Yi, Mitchell & Bickel, 2010 for a review). Though some have conceptualized impulsivity as a tendency to devalue delayed rewards at a steep rate across situations and commodities citing findings of positively correlations among the discounting of various commodities (Odum, 2011), others have rejected this notion stating that the tendency to behave impulsively is specific to the context and the commodity for which one is making a decision (Evenden, 1999; Green & Myerson, 2010). The latter argument has recently been fueled by a recent report that how individuals make decisions about real juice rewards is unrelated to hypothetical money (Jimura et al., 2011). The present research seeks to replicate the procedures of Jimura and colleagues (2011) in order to investigate the relation between how individuals make decisions about delayed money versus delayed juice.
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| PRESENTER(S) INFO |
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Rochelle Smits - Education and Human Services |
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Primary Presenter
Education and Human Services
Psychology
Dr. Madden
Psychology
smitsrr@gmail.com
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