Risk preferences impose a hidden distortion on measures of choice impulsivity

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 1; p. e0191357
• Main Authors: Lopez-Guzman, Silvia, Konova, Anna B., Louie, Kenway, Glimcher, Paul W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 26.01.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis; Attitude; Attitudes; Bias; Biology and Life Sciences; Choice Behavior; Clinical decision making; Computational neuroscience; Decision making; Discount rates; Distortion; Economic models; Economics; Expected utility; Female; Human behavior; Humans; Impulsive Behavior; Impulsivity; Male; Management; Mathematical models; Measurement; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental disorders; Mental health; Middle Aged; Nervous system; Neurosciences; Parameter estimation; Psychiatry; Psychology; Public health; Risk; Risk taking; Social Sciences; Time Factors; New York; United States > US

Measuring temporal discounting through the use of intertemporal choice tasks is now the gold standard method for quantifying human choice impulsivity (impatience) in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, public health and computational psychiatry. A recent area of growing interest is indiv...