Practicing prospection promotes patience: Repeated episodic future thinking cumulatively reduces delay discounting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delay discounting, or the preference for smaller, sooner over larger, later rewards, has been associated with alcohol use disorder and problem drinking. Episodic future thinking has been suggested as an intervention to address steep delay discounting. In the present study, we examined the effect of up to six consecutive sessions of episodic future thinking.

Methods

Repeated, within-subject data were collected from current and recent problem drinkers (n = 50) over six sessions. Linear mixed-effect models were used to estimate effects of repeated sessions and manipulations. Participants completed episodic future thinking interviews at up to six sessions, in which they generated personalized future events. Participants also engaged with cues of scarcity. At each sess

SUBMITTER: Mellis AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6878183 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature