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Are You Sure: Preference and Ambivalence in Delay Discounting
Delay discounting (DD) research has become ubiquitous due to its robust associations with clinical outcomes. Typical DD tasks involve multiple trials in which participants indicate preference between smaller, sooner and larger, later rewards. Scoring of these binary choice tasks has not considered t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818853/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35140592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.782991 |
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author | Grunevski, Sergej Smith, Aaron P. Yi, Richard |
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description | Delay discounting (DD) research has become ubiquitous due to its robust associations with clinical outcomes. Typical DD tasks involve multiple trials in which participants indicate preference between smaller, sooner and larger, later rewards. Scoring of these binary choice tasks has not considered trial-level ambivalence as a possible decision-making construct. The present study explored the extent to which trial-level ambivalence varied within-individual using an established assessment of DD (the Monetary Choice Questionnaire). Results indicate that degree of ambivalence peaks around the trials associated with the DD rate. Moreover, ambivalence is associated with a diminished impact of reward delay differences on choice, where greater delay differences decrease the odds of choosing the larger, later rewards. Taken together, we believe ambivalence to be a relevant construct for research on intertemporal decision making, and it may be particularly useful in the study of manipulations on individual rates of DD. |
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spelling | pubmed-88188532022-02-08 Are You Sure: Preference and Ambivalence in Delay Discounting Grunevski, Sergej Smith, Aaron P. Yi, Richard Front Behav Neurosci Behavioral Neuroscience Delay discounting (DD) research has become ubiquitous due to its robust associations with clinical outcomes. Typical DD tasks involve multiple trials in which participants indicate preference between smaller, sooner and larger, later rewards. Scoring of these binary choice tasks has not considered trial-level ambivalence as a possible decision-making construct. The present study explored the extent to which trial-level ambivalence varied within-individual using an established assessment of DD (the Monetary Choice Questionnaire). Results indicate that degree of ambivalence peaks around the trials associated with the DD rate. Moreover, ambivalence is associated with a diminished impact of reward delay differences on choice, where greater delay differences decrease the odds of choosing the larger, later rewards. Taken together, we believe ambivalence to be a relevant construct for research on intertemporal decision making, and it may be particularly useful in the study of manipulations on individual rates of DD. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8818853/ /pubmed/35140592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.782991 Text en Copyright © 2022 Grunevski, Smith and Yi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Behavioral Neuroscience Grunevski, Sergej Smith, Aaron P. Yi, Richard Are You Sure: Preference and Ambivalence in Delay Discounting |
title | Are You Sure: Preference and Ambivalence in Delay Discounting |
title_full | Are You Sure: Preference and Ambivalence in Delay Discounting |
title_fullStr | Are You Sure: Preference and Ambivalence in Delay Discounting |
title_full_unstemmed | Are You Sure: Preference and Ambivalence in Delay Discounting |
title_short | Are You Sure: Preference and Ambivalence in Delay Discounting |
title_sort | are you sure: preference and ambivalence in delay discounting |
topic | Behavioral Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818853/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35140592 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.782991 |
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