Willing to wait: Anorexia nervosa symptomatology is associated with higher future orientation and reduced intertemporal discounting.

ABSTRACT: Anorexia nervosa is a severe eating disorder characterized by food restriction in service of a future goal: thinness and weight loss. Prior work suggests altered intertemporal decision-making in this disorder, with more farsighted decisions-i.e. reduced delay discounting-in patients with acute anorexia nervosa. Future-oriented cognition, such as frequent prospective future thinking in daily life, promotes farsighted decision making. However, whether temporal orientation is altered in anorexia nervosa, potentially contributing to reduced delay discounting in this population, remains unclear. We measured delay discounting behavior, anorexia nervosa symptomatology, and temporal orientation in a large sample of never-diagnosed individuals. We found that higher anorexia nervosa symptomatology w

SUBMITTER: Schuman I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11802882 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature