This report summarises the most recent evidence on the relationship between
socioeconomic status and the psychological, social and cultural processes that underpin …

This paper empirically analyzes how individual characteristics are associated with risk
aversion, loss aversion, time discounting, and present bias. To this end, we conduct a large …

Objective To determine if adverse effects of preterm birth on attention and academic abilities
at age 8 years are mediated by children's inhibitory control abilities. Study design Five …

For much of the 20th Century, theories of addictive behaviour and motivation were polarized
between two models. The first model viewed addiction as a moral failure for which addicts …

As a component of self‐discipline, delay discounting refers to the ability to wait longer for
preferred rewards and plays a pivotal role in sha** students' academic performance …

Delayed reward discounting (DRD) refers to the extent to which an individual devalues a
reward based on a temporal delay and is known to be elevated in individuals with substance …

The aim of this chapter is to articulate the ways in which our social standing, and particularly
our socio-economic status (SES), affects, even transforms, the experience of boredom. Even …

Regulatory problems in infancy and toddlerhood have previously been associated with an
increased risk of develo** attention problems in childhood. We hypothesized that early …

Converging behavioral evidence indicates that temporal discounting, measured by
intertemporal choice tasks, is inversely related to intelligence. At the neural level, the parieto …

This paper contributes to the literature on Relative Risk Aversion theory in two ways: first, by
considering that the effect of time preferences may differ according to both children's gender …