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Steep Discounting of Future Rewards as an Impulsivity Phenotype: A Concise Review.
Current topics in behavioral neurosciences - 1 Jan 2020
Levitt Emily, Sanchez-Roige Sandra, Palmer Abraham A, MacKillop James
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This chapter provides an overview over the behavioral economic index of impulsivity known as delay discounting. Specifically, delay discounting refers to an individual's preference for smaller immediate rewards over a larger delayed rewards. The more precipitously an individual discounts future rewards, the more impulsive they are considered to be. First, the chapter reviews the nature of delay discounting as a...
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