Hyperbolic discounting: value and time processes of substance abusers and non-clinical individuals in intertemporal choice.

The single parameter hyperbolic model has been frequently used to describe value discounting as a function of time and to differentiate substance abusers and non-clinical participants with the model's parameter k. However, k says little about the mechanisms underlying the observed differences....

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Main Authors: Jiuqing Cheng, Claudia González-Vallejo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4229090?pdf=render