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Open AccessShort-sighted decision-making by those not vaccinated against COVID-19
Widespread vaccination is necessary to minimize or halt the effects of many infectious diseases, including COVID-19. Stagnating vaccine uptake can prolong pandemics, raising the question of how we might predic...
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Delay discounting, cognitive ability, and personality: What matters?
Steep delay discounting is associated with problems such as addiction, obesity, and risky sexual behavior that are frequently described as reflecting impulsiveness and lack of self-control, but it may simply i...
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On the Complexity of Discounting, Choice Situations, and People
Although steep delay discounting is associated with various behavioral problems, perhaps most prominently substance abuse, we argue that it is best not conceived of as a character flaw such as impulsivity. Suc...
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Open AccessOn Four Types of Devaluation of Outcomes Due to Their Costs: Delay, Probability, Effort, and Social Discounting
Discounting refers to decreases in the subjective value of an outcome with increases in some attribute of that outcome. The attributes most commonly studied are delay and probability, with far less research on...
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Open AccessWhen immediate losses are followed by delayed gains: Additive hyperboloid discounting models
Discounting research has tended to focus on one simple situation, choice between an immediate, smaller gain and a larger, delayed gain, that is assumed by many to capture the essence of self-control. In everyd...
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Delay and probability discounting by drug-dependent cocaine and marijuana users
Steep discounting of delayed monetary rewards by substance-dependent individuals is well-established. Less is known, however, about discounting other kinds of outcomes, and very little is known about discounti...
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Cross-modal Informational Masking of Lipreading by Babble
Whereas the energetic and informational masking effects of unintelligible babble on auditory speech recognition are well established, the present study is the first to investigate its effects on visual speech ...
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Age-Related Slowing in Online Samples
Three experiments assessed the use of online samples recruited from the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) worker pool for studying the psychology of aging. The results replicated several. benchmark findings: Olde...
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Male, But Not Female, Alcohol-Dependent African Americans Discount Delayed Gains More Steeply than Propensity-Score Matched Controls
Alcohol dependence is known to be associated with steep discounting of delayed rewards, but its relation to the discounting of delayed losses and probabilistic rewards is unclear. Moreover, patterns of alcohol...
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The self-advantage in visual speech processing enhances audiovisual speech recognition in noise
Individuals lip read themselves more accurately than they lip read others when only the visual speech signal is available (Tye-Murray et al., Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 115–119, 2013). This self-advantage...
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Individuals with low working memory spans show greater interference from irrelevant information because of poor source monitoring, not greater activation
Although individuals with high and low working memory (WM) span appear to differ in the extent to which irrelevant information interferes with their performance on WM tasks, the locus of this interference is n...
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The effects of environmental support and secondary tasks on visuospatial working memory
In the present experiments, we examined the effects of environmental support on participants’ ability to rehearse locations and the role of such support in the effects of secondary tasks on memory span. In Exp...
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Level of deprivation does not affect degree of discounting in pigeons
Two experiments tested the effects of food deprivation on discounting in pigeons. An adjusting-amount procedure was used to estimate the subjective value of food at delays ranging from 1 to 24 s. Experiment 1 com...
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Reading your own lips: Common-coding theory and visual speech perception
Common-coding theory posits that (1) perceiving an action activates the same representations of motor plans that are activated by actually performing that action, and (2) because of individual differences in t...
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Dual n-back training increases the capacity of the focus of attention
Working memory (WM) training has been reported to benefit abilities as diverse as fluid intelligence (Jaeggi et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105:6829–68...
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Suppression of cocaine self-administration in monkeys: effects of delayed punishment
Delaying presentation of a drug can decrease its effectiveness as a reinforcer, but the effect of delaying punishment of drug self-administration is unknown.
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Delay discounting in rhesus monkeys: Equivalent discounting of more and less preferred sucrose concentrations
Humans discount larger amounts of a delayed reinforcer less steeply than smaller amounts, but studies with pigeons and rats have yet to reveal such a magnitude effect, suggesting that the effect may be unique ...
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Translational Research on Discounting
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Discounting of Various Types of Rewards by Women with and Without Binge Eating Disorder: Evidence for General Rather Than Specific Differences
The present study compared the extent to which obese women with binge eating disorder (BED), obese women without BED, and controls discounted delayed and probabilistic money and directly consumable rewards: fo...
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Making strides in modeling individual differences: Reply to Leite, Ratcliff, and White (2007)
Leite, Ratcliff, and White (2007) claimed that the diffusion model (Ratcliff, 1978) could simulate the molar patterns in response times (RTs) from the multiple tasks observed by Chen, Hale, and Myerson (2007)....
