Introducing upfront money can decrease discounting in intertemporal choices with losses

People generally tend to advance gains and postpone losses in intertemporal choice. Jiang, Hu, and Zhu (2014) recently showed that adding upfront losses or gains to both smaller and sooner (SS) and larger and later (LL) rewards can decrease people’s discounting. To account for this decrease, they pr...

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Main Authors: Cheng-Ming Jiang, Hong-Yue Sun, Sheng-Hua Zheng, Liang-Jun Wang, Yu Qin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01256/full