The Effects of Financial Education on Impulsive Decision Making.

Delay discounting, as a behavioral measure of impulsive choice, is strongly related to substance abuse and other risky behaviors. Therefore, effective techniques that alter delay discounting are of great interest. We explored the ability of a semester long financial education course to change delay...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: William B DeHart, Jonathan E Friedel, Jean M Lown, Amy L Odum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4956221?pdf=render