TY - JOUR
T1 - Within-subject differences in degree of delay discounting as a function of order of presentation of hypothetical cash rewards
AU - Robles-Sotelo, Elias
AU - Vargas, Perla
AU - Bejarano, Rafael
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - Procedural variants in estimating delay discounting (DD) have been shown to yield significant differences in estimated degree of DD as well as variations in individual patterns of choice. For example, a recent study found significantly different degrees of DD between groups assessed using either an ascending or descending order of presentation of the immediately available rewards. The purpose of this study was to test for within-subject effects of order of presentation of the immediate rewards in a DD task. In a single session, college students (N = 29) were asked to complete two DD tasks, one with the immediate rewards presented in ascending order and one in descending order. Consistent with previous results, significantly larger mean area under the discounting curve (AUC) was observed when the descending sequence was used compared to the ascending order of presentation; and the correlation between both measurements was moderate. These results suggest that some DD assessment tasks may be sensitive to contextual variables such as order and range of the reward and delay values.
AB - Procedural variants in estimating delay discounting (DD) have been shown to yield significant differences in estimated degree of DD as well as variations in individual patterns of choice. For example, a recent study found significantly different degrees of DD between groups assessed using either an ascending or descending order of presentation of the immediately available rewards. The purpose of this study was to test for within-subject effects of order of presentation of the immediate rewards in a DD task. In a single session, college students (N = 29) were asked to complete two DD tasks, one with the immediate rewards presented in ascending order and one in descending order. Consistent with previous results, significantly larger mean area under the discounting curve (AUC) was observed when the descending sequence was used compared to the ascending order of presentation; and the correlation between both measurements was moderate. These results suggest that some DD assessment tasks may be sensitive to contextual variables such as order and range of the reward and delay values.
KW - Assessment
KW - Delay discounting
KW - Framing
KW - Impulsiveness
KW - Order of presentation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.02.018
DO - 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.02.018
M3 - Article
C2 - 19429219
AN - SCOPUS:64949092738
SN - 0376-6357
VL - 81
SP - 260
EP - 263
JO - Behavioural processes
JF - Behavioural processes
IS - 2
ER -