Don’t let me do that! – models of precommitment

Precommitment, or taking away a future choice from oneself, is a mechanism for overcoming impulsivity. Here we review recent work suggesting that precommitment can be best explained through a distributed decision-making system with multiple discounting rates. This model makes specific predictions ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zeb eKurth-Nelson, A David eRedish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2012.00138/full