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SUBMITTER: Lempert KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5737445 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20170901 9
In intertemporal choices between immediate and delayed rewards, people tend to prefer immediate rewards, often even when the delayed reward is larger. This is known as temporal discounting. It has been proposed that this tendency emerges because immediate rewards are more emotionally arousing than delayed rewards. However, in our previous research, we found no evidence for this but instead found that arousal responses (indexed with pupil dilation) in intertemporal choice are context-dependent. S ...[more]