Excessively devaluing delayed reinforcers co‐occurs with a wide variety of clinical
conditions such as drug dependence, obesity, and excessive gambling. If excessive delay …

Psychologists and economists have examined the effect of cognitive load in a variety of
situations from risk taking to snack choice. We review previous experiments that have …

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in
psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and …

Recently, there have been reviews focusing on the neurological underpinning of
intertemporal. This chapter talks about the psychological foundation of intertemporal …

Intertemporal choices–decisions that play out over time–pervade our life. Thus, how people
make intertemporal choices is a fundamental question. Here, we investigate the role of …

This paper proposes a novel account of impatience: People pay more attention to the
opportunity costs of choosing larger, later rewards than to the opportunity costs of choosing …

How do people make preferential choices in situations where their cognitive capacities are
limited? Many studies link the manipulation of cognitive resources to qualitative changes in …

There are many ways to induce cognitive load. In this paper, we manipulate cognitive
capacity using four common techniques: a number memorization task, a visual pattern task …

This study investigated the influence of executive working memory (EWM) capacity on
impulsive decision making in a sample of young adults (N= 623) who varied in degree of …

The tendency to discount future prospects in lieu of smaller immediate outcomes is known
as temporal discounting. The current work used eye‐tracking methodology to examine …