Harder than expected: increased conflict in clearly disadvantageous delayed choices in a computer game.

ABSTRACT: When choosing between immediate and temporally delayed goods, people sometimes decide disadvantageously. Here, we aim to provide process-level insight into differences between individually determined advantageous and disadvantageous choices. Participants played a computer game, deciding between two different rewards of varying size and distance by moving an agent towards the chosen reward. We calculated individual models of advantageous choices and characterized the decision process by analyzing mouse movements. The larger amount of participants' choices was classified as advantageous and the disadvantageous choices were biased towards choosing sooner/smaller rewards. The deflection of mouse movements indicated more conflict in disadvantageous choices compared with advantageous choices whe

SUBMITTER: Scherbaum S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3829829 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature