Temporal Discounting of Money and Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Hoarding Level.

ABSTRACT: The current study examines the association of individual hoarding levels with temporal discounting of different commodities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on their hoarding level, participants were assigned to the Hoarding Group (HG) or the Non-Hoarding Group (NHG). Participants performed two delay discounting tasks: a traditional task with monetary options and a modified task, where money was replaced with disposable surgical masks, a needed commodity during the pandemic. Results revealed a stronger preference for immediate commodity, therefore a higher discount rate, when evaluating surgical masks compared to money in the whole sample, and an overall higher tendency in discounting both type of rewards in the NHG compared to the HG. Moreover, non-hoarders discounted money significant

SUBMITTER: Cannito L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8219851 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature