Temporal and social discounting of pain and illness
Unhealthy behaviour often entails short-term indulgence at the expense of long-term health. This thesis examines an hypothesis that temporal discounting, a measure of the extent to which a person devalues delayed benefit, predicts unhealthy behaviour. The work also evaluates temporal discounting as...
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Imperial College London
2015
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684272 |