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SUBMITTER: Schwenke D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5398579 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schwenke Diana D Dshemuchadse Maja M Vesper Cordula C Bleichner Martin Georg MG Scherbaum Stefan S
PloS one 20170420 4
This study addressed the question whether or not social collaboration has an effect on delay discounting, the tendency to prefer sooner but smaller over later but larger delivered rewards. We applied a novel paradigm in which participants executed choices between two gains in an individual and in a dyadic decision-making condition. We observed how participants reached mutual consent via joystick movement coordination and found lower discounting and a higher decisions' efficiency. In order to est ...[more]