Reassessing Intertemporal Choice: Human decision-making is more optimal in a foraging task than in a self-control task

Many contemporary concerns (e.g., addiction, failure to save) can be viewed as intertemporal choice problems in which the consequences of choices are realized at different times. In some laboratory paradigms used to study intertemporal choice, non-human animals demonstrate a preference for immediacy...

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Main Authors: Evan C Carter, Eric J Pedersen, Michael E McCullough
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00095/full