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SUBMITTER: Sawicki P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5074525 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sawicki Przemysław P Białek Michał M
PloS one 20161021 10
Typical research on intertemporal choice utilizes a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) paradigm requiring participants to choose between a smaller sooner and larger later payoff. In the adjusting-amount procedure (AAP) one of the alternatives is fixed and the other is adjusted according to particular choices made by the participant. Such a method makes the alternatives unequal in status and is speculated to make the fixed alternative a reference point for choices, thereby affecting the decisio ...[more]