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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1995 Wiley Subscription Services
- ISSN
- 0022-5002
- eISSN
- 1938-3711
- DOI
- 10.1901/jeab.1995.64-263
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Abstract
The present paper addresses the question of the form of the mathematical relation between the time until a delayed reward and its present value. Data are presented from an experiment in which subjects chose between hypothetical amounts of money available either immediately or after a delay (Green, Fry, & Myerson, 1994). Analyses of the behavior of individual young adults demonstrated that temporal discounting is better described by hyperbola‐like functions than by exponential decay functions. For most individuals, the parameter that determines the rate of discounting varied inversely with amount. Raising the denominator of the discounting function to a power resulted in better descriptions of the data from most subjects. Two possible derivations of the temporal discounting function are proposed, a repeated choice model and an expected value model. These provide theoretical interpretations for amount‐dependent discounting but amount‐independent exponent parameters.
Journal
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 1995
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