Description
Book SynopsisThis volume is an approachable, comprehensive overview of the behavioral science and neuroscience of impulsive choices and their relation to delay discounting.
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Table of ContentsContributors
Foreword
—George Loewenstein
Introduction
—Gregory J. Madden and Warren K. Bickel
I. Methods, Models, and Findings
- A Delay-Discounting Primer
—Gregory J. Madden and Patrick S. Johnson
- Delay Discounting: State and Trait Variable
—Amy L. Odum and Ana A. L. Baumann
- Experimental and Correlational Analyses of Delay and Probability Discounting
—Leonard Green and Joel Myerson
II. Neuroscience of Discounting and Risk-Taking
- The Neural and Neurochemical Basis of Delay Discounting
—Catherine A. Winstanley
- Neural Models of Delay Discounting
—A. David Redish and Zeb Kurth-Nelson
- Neuroeconomics of Risk-Sensitive Decision Making
—Sarah R. Heilbronner, Benjamin Y. Hayden, and Michael L. Platt
III. Discounting and Addictive Disorders
- Delay Discounting and Substance Abuse–Dependence
—Richard Yi, Suzanne H. Mitchell, and Warren K. Bickel
- Drug Effects on Delay Discounting
—Harriet de Wit and Suzanne H. Mitchell
- Delay Discounting as a Predictor of Drug Abuse
—Marilyn E. Carroll, Justin J. Anker, Jami L. Mach, Jennifer L. Newman, and Jennifer L. Perry
- Discounting and Pathological Gambling
—Nancy M. Petry and Gregory J. Madden
IV. Discounting and the Human Condition
- Role of Time and Delay in Health Decision Making
—Jalie A. Tucker, Cathy A. Simpson, and Yulia A. Khodneva
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Discounting: Multiple Minor Traits and States
—Jonathan Williams
V. Empirical and Theoretical Extensions
- The Adaptive Nature of Impulsivity
—Jeffrey R. Stevens and David W. Stephens
- Recursive Self-Prediction as a Proximate Cause of Impulsivity: The Value of a Bottom-Up Model
—George Ainslie
- The Extended Self
—Howard Rachlin and Bryan A. Jones
Index
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