Steep delay discounting is characterized by a preference for small immediate outcomes
relative to larger delayed outcomes and is predictive of drug abuse, risky sexual behaviors …

Highlights•Delay discounting (DD) indicates choice between smaller, sooner and larger,
later reinforcers.•DD modulates the risk of substance use disorder, other disorders, and …

Delay discounting paradigms have gained widespread popularity across clinical research.
Given the prevalence in the field, researchers have set lofty expectations for the importance …

Although obesity is a result of processes operating at multiple levels, most forms result from
decision-making behavior. The aim of this review was to examine the candidacy of temporal …

Future-oriented individuals tend to display more pro-environmental attitudes and
behaviours, compared to those who are present-oriented. Investigating the determinants of …

Background The concept of a financial scarcity mindset has raised much attention as an
explanation for poor decision-making and dysfunctional behavior. It has been suggested …

Reinforcer Pathology theory proposes that expanding the temporal window of reinforcement
(ie, reducing delay discounting) using episodic future thinking (EFT) would decrease alcohol …

The rate at which individuals discount future rewards (ie, discounting rate) is strongly
associated with their propensity for substance abuse as well as myriad other negative health …

Background Delay discounting, or the preference for smaller, sooner over larger, later
rewards, has been associated with alcohol use disorder and problem drinking. Episodic …

The present study sought to determine if episodic future thinking (EFT) can decrease delay
discounting (DD) and demand for fast food under simulations of economic scarcity in adults …