Introducing money at any time can reduce discounting in intertemporal choices with rewards: An extension of the upfront money effect

To study intertemporal choices, researchers typically instruct subjects to choose between smaller and sooner (SS) and larger and later (LL) rewards (e.g., gaining CNY 210 in a week vs. gaining CNY 250 in five weeks). People generally tend to discount steeply and prefer SS to LL rewards in such situa...

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Main Authors: Hong-Yue Sun, Cheng-Ming Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2015-11-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15903/jdm15903.pdf