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Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards
How do our valuation systems change to homeostatically correct undesirable psychological or physiological states, such as those caused by hunger? There is evidence that hunger increases discounting for food rewards, biasing choices towards smaller but sooner food reward over larger but later reward....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31520252 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01655-0 |
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description | How do our valuation systems change to homeostatically correct undesirable psychological or physiological states, such as those caused by hunger? There is evidence that hunger increases discounting for food rewards, biasing choices towards smaller but sooner food reward over larger but later reward. However, it is not understood how hunger modulates delay discounting for non-food items. We outline and quantitatively evaluate six possible models of how our valuation systems modulate discounting of various commodities in the face of the undesirable state of being hungry. With a repeated-measures design, an experimental hunger manipulation, and quantitative modeling, we find strong evidence that hunger causes large increases in delay discounting for food, with an approximately 25% spillover effect to non-food commodities. The results provide evidence that in the face of hunger, our valuation systems increase discounting for commodities, which cannot achieve a desired state change as well as for those commodities that can. Given that strong delay discounting can cause negative outcomes in many non-food (consumer, investment, medical, or inter-personal) domains, the present findings suggest caution may be necessary when making decisions involving non-food outcomes while hungry. |
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spelling | pubmed-67976302019-11-01 Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards Skrynka, Jordan Vincent, Benjamin T. Psychon Bull Rev Brief Report How do our valuation systems change to homeostatically correct undesirable psychological or physiological states, such as those caused by hunger? There is evidence that hunger increases discounting for food rewards, biasing choices towards smaller but sooner food reward over larger but later reward. However, it is not understood how hunger modulates delay discounting for non-food items. We outline and quantitatively evaluate six possible models of how our valuation systems modulate discounting of various commodities in the face of the undesirable state of being hungry. With a repeated-measures design, an experimental hunger manipulation, and quantitative modeling, we find strong evidence that hunger causes large increases in delay discounting for food, with an approximately 25% spillover effect to non-food commodities. The results provide evidence that in the face of hunger, our valuation systems increase discounting for commodities, which cannot achieve a desired state change as well as for those commodities that can. Given that strong delay discounting can cause negative outcomes in many non-food (consumer, investment, medical, or inter-personal) domains, the present findings suggest caution may be necessary when making decisions involving non-food outcomes while hungry. Springer US 2019-09-13 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6797630/ /pubmed/31520252 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01655-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Skrynka, Jordan Vincent, Benjamin T. Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards |
title | Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards |
title_full | Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards |
title_fullStr | Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards |
title_full_unstemmed | Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards |
title_short | Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards |
title_sort | hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6797630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31520252 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01655-0 |
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