Risk preferences impose a hidden distortion on measures of choice impulsivity.

ABSTRACT: Measuring temporal discounting through the use of intertemporal choice tasks is now the gold standard method for quantifying human choice impulsivity (impatience) in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, public health and computational psychiatry. A recent area of growing interest is individual differences in discounting levels, as these may predispose to (or protect from) mental health disorders, addictive behaviors, and other diseases. At the same time, more and more studies have been dedicated to the quantification of individual attitudes towards risk, which have been measured in many clinical and non-clinical populations using closely related techniques. Economists have pointed to interactions between measurements of time preferences and risk preferences that may distort esti

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Guzman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5786295 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature