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SUBMITTER: Albrecht K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3073390 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Albrecht Konstanze K Volz Kirsten G KG Sutter Matthias M Laibson David I DI von Cramon D Yves DY
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20100606 2
People have present-biased preferences: they choose more impatiently when choosing between an immediate reward and a delayed reward, than when choosing between a delayed reward and a more delayed reward. Following McClure et al. [McClure, S.M., Laibson, D.I., Loewenstein, G., Cohen, J.D. (2004). Separate neural systems value immediate and delayed monetary rewards. Science, 306, 503.], we find that areas in the dopaminergic reward system show greater activation when a binary choice set includes b ...[more]