Within-subject comparison of real and hypothetical money rewards in delay discounting |
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| Authors: | Johnson Matthe W Bickel Warren K |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington 05401-1419, USA. matthew.johnson@uvm.edu |
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| Abstract: | A within-subject design, using human participants, compared delay discounting functions for real and hypothetical money rewards. Both real and hypothetical rewards were studied across a range that included $10 to $250. For 5 of the 6 participants, no systematic difference in discount rate was observed in response to real and hypothetical choices, suggesting that hypothetical rewards may often serve as a valid proxy for real rewards in delay discounting research. By measuring discounting at an unprecedented range of real rewards, this study has also systematically replicated the robust finding in human delay discounting research that discount rates decrease with increasing magnitude of reward. A hyperbolic decay model described the data better than an exponential model. |
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| Keywords: | delay discounting real rewards hypothetical rewards magnitude hyperbolic choice humans |
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