Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Delay-discounting studies in neuroscience, psychology, and economics have been mostly focused on concepts of self-control, reward evaluation, and discounting. Another important relationship to consider is the link between intertemporal choice and time perception. We presented 50 college students with timing tasks on the range of seconds to minutes and intertemporal-choice tasks on both the time-scale of seconds and of days. We hypothesized that individual differences in time perception would influence decisions about short experienced delays but not long delays. While we found some evidence that individual differences in internal clock speed account for some unexplained variance between choices across time-horizons, overall our findings suggest a nominal contribution of the altered sense of time in intertemporal choice.
Source: Scientific Reports
Authors: Evgeniya Lukinova, Jeffrey C. Erlich
Institutions: New York University Shanghai, East China Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,990
Funders: City University of New York, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, East China Normal University, Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project, Hunter College, University of California, San Diego, NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, New York University Shanghai
Awards: G1615189571, G1947396023, G4100993734
OpenAlex ID: W3201531973