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Exploring The Reliability And Validity Of The Experiential Discounting Task, Rochelle R. Smits
Exploring The Reliability And Validity Of The Experiential Discounting Task, Rochelle R. Smits
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Delay discounting is the devaluation of rewards that are delayed in time. This phenomenon was first studied with animals in controlled laboratory environments and later translated to human procedures. Though the decrease in value of outcomes as the delay to receipt increases is the same across species (money for humans, food for animals), a number of methodological concerns have been raised about the procedures used to study delay discounting in humans.
The Experiential Discounting Task (EDT) was recently developed in order to study delay discounting in humans in a way that is more similar to that used with animals. That …