No Effects of Psychosocial Stress on Intertemporal Choice

Intertemporal choices - involving decisions which trade off instant and delayed outcomes - are often made under stress. It remains unknown, however, whether and how stress affects intertemporal choice. We subjected 142 healthy male subjects to a laboratory stress or control protocol, and asked them...

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Main Authors: Haushofer, Johannes (Contributor), Cornelisse, Sandra (Author), Seinstra, Maayke (Author), Fehr, Ernst (Author), Joels, Marian (Author), Kalenscher, Tobias (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2014-01-06T20:27:52Z.
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