Effects of individual and dyadic decision-making and normative reference on delay discounting decisions.

ABSTRACT: The tendency to devaluate delayed rewards, a phenomenon referred to as 'discounting behaviour', has been studied by wide-ranging research examining individuals choosing between sooner but smaller or later but larger rewards. Despite the fact that many real-life choices are embedded in a social context, the question of whether or not social collaboration can have an impact on such choices has not been addressed empirically. With this research, we aimed to fill this gap experimentally by implementing a novel choice selection procedure in order to study the interactive dynamics between two participants. This selection procedure allowed us to dissect the sequence of decision-making into its elements, starting from the very first individual preference to the solution of possible conflicting pre

SUBMITTER: Schwenke D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9334506 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature