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Delay Discounting Mechanisms In Eating Disorders: A Call To Arms, Rowan Crowder
Delay Discounting Mechanisms In Eating Disorders: A Call To Arms, Rowan Crowder
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Delay discounting, or temporal discounting, is a measure of impulsivity that describes the devaluation of a reinforcer as a function of its receipt in time. Several studies have shown that individuals diagnosed with a variety of behavioral maladies such as obesity/over-eating, substance abuse, cigarette smoking, heavy drinking, and problematic gambling exhibit greater discounting rates. To be specific, they are more impulsive and less willing to wait for delayed reinforcement than healthy controls. Several of these studies have found that obese women discount at a steeper rate than non-obese women, similar results have been shown in binge eating disorder. The relationship …
Identifying The Underlying Components Of Delay Discounting Using Latent Factor Modeling, W. Brady Dehart
Identifying The Underlying Components Of Delay Discounting Using Latent Factor Modeling, W. Brady Dehart
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Many problematic behaviors can be conceptualized as choosing a smaller, immediate outcome over a larger, delayed outcome. For example, drug abuse involves choosing between the immediate euphoric effects of the drug and the delayed health and legal consequences of drug abuse. Individuals that consistently choose the smaller outcome are said to behavior “impulsively.” The goal of this dissertation was to understand how to change impulsive choice. Chapters 2 and 3 successfully demonstrate that impulsive choice can be altered by reframing how the choice is presented. For example, framing a delayed outcome using a specific date instead of a duration of …