Psychiatry and Psychology [F] » Psychological Phenomena [F02] » Mental Processes » Thinking » Decision Making » Choice Behavior » Delay Discounting
Description
The tendency to devalue an outcome as a function of its temporal delay or probability of achievement. It can be evaluated in a psychological paradigm that involves the choice between receiving a smaller immediate reward or a larger delayed reward, and may be used to provide a measure of impulsive behavior. MeSH
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