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View article: Discounting for Money, Food, and Sex, over the Menstrual Cycle
Discounting for Money, Food, and Sex, over the Menstrual Cycle Open
Sexual desire, physical activity, economic choices and other behaviours fluctuate over the menstrual cycle. However, we have an incomplete understanding of how preferences for smaller sooner or larger later rewards (known as delay discount…
View article: Discounting for money, food, and sex, over the menstrual cycle
Discounting for money, food, and sex, over the menstrual cycle Open
Sexual desire, physical activity, economic, and other behaviours fluctuate over the menstrual cycle. However, we have an incomplete understanding of how preferences for smaller sooner or larger later rewards (known as delay discounting) ch…
View article: Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented global changes in individual and collective behaviour. To reduce the spread of the virus, public health bodies have promoted social distancing measures while attempting to mitigate thei…
View article: Examining the role of risk in waiting preference and dynamic preference reversal: An experience intertemporal choice study
Examining the role of risk in waiting preference and dynamic preference reversal: An experience intertemporal choice study Open
Short waits are pervasive in modern life. This study addressed how risk impacts intertemporal decisions that involve short waits (of 72 s or less) and how those decisions change while waiting. We used an experience time‐discounting task se…
View article: Rewards that are near increase impulsive action
Rewards that are near increase impulsive action Open
View article: Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict lower adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict lower adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented changes in the day-to-day behaviours of populations globally, especially in areas where social distancing rules have been mandated. Understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying (un)succes…
View article: Cycling and prostate cancer risk – Bayesian insights from observational study data
Cycling and prostate cancer risk – Bayesian insights from observational study data Open
Men have a very high lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer, and so there is a pressing need to understand factors that influence this risk. One factor of interest is whether cycling increases of decreases prostate cancer lifetime ris…
View article: No simple link between temporal discounting and body composition
No simple link between temporal discounting and body composition Open
Impulsive traits, broadly construed, are thought to play a role in under- and over-weight. For example, the behavioural economic factor of delay discounting, which describes preferences between smaller sooner and larger later rewards, is t…
View article: The case of muddled units in temporal discounting
The case of muddled units in temporal discounting Open
View article: Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards
Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards Open
How do our valuation systems change to homeostatically correct undesirable psychological or physiological states, such as those caused by hunger? There is evidence that hunger increases discounting for food rewards, biasing choices towards…
View article: Temporal discounting does not influence Body Mass Index
Temporal discounting does not influence Body Mass Index Open
The prevalence of obesity has driven searches for cognitive or behavioural economic factors related to Body Mass Index (BMI). One compelling candidate is delay discounting: those who prefer smaller sooner rewards over larger but later rewa…
View article: The case of muddled units in temporal discounting
The case of muddled units in temporal discounting Open
While parameters are crucial components of cognitive models, relatively little importance has been given to their units. We show that this has lead to some parameters to be contaminated, introducing an artifactual correlation between them.…
View article: The DARC Toolbox: automated, flexible, and efficient delayed and risky choice experiments using Bayesian adaptive design
The DARC Toolbox: automated, flexible, and efficient delayed and risky choice experiments using Bayesian adaptive design Open
Delayed and risky choice (DARC) experiments are a cornerstone of research in psychology, behavioural economics and neuroeconomics. By collecting an agent's preferences between pairs of prospects we can characterise their preferences, inves…
View article: Reverse Nudge Theory - When The Many Nudge The Few.
Reverse Nudge Theory - When The Many Nudge The Few. Open
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View article: Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards
Hunger increases delay discounting of food and non-food rewards Open
How do our valuation systems change to homeostatically correct undesirable psychological or physiological states, such as those caused by hunger? There is evidence that hunger increases discounting for food rewards, biasing choices towards…
View article: The DARC Toolbox: automated, flexible, and efficient delayed and risky choice experiments using Bayesian adaptive design
The DARC Toolbox: automated, flexible, and efficient delayed and risky choice experiments using Bayesian adaptive design Open
Delayed and risky choice (DARC) experiments are a cornerstone of research in psychology, behavioural economics and neuroeconomics. By collecting an agent's preferences between pairs of prospects we can characterise their preferences, inves…
View article: Fewer Statistical Tests … or Better Ones?
Fewer Statistical Tests … or Better Ones? Open
View article: Hierarchical Bayesian estimation and hypothesis testing for delay discounting tasks
Hierarchical Bayesian estimation and hypothesis testing for delay discounting tasks Open
View article: Bayesian accounts of covert selective attention: A tutorial review
Bayesian accounts of covert selective attention: A tutorial review Open