ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2017
Altered experiential, but not hypothetical, delay discounting in schizophrenia.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis of test-retest reliability and stability of delay and probability discounting.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Pooled it
- Delay Discounting as a Transdiagnostic Process in Psychiatric Disorders: A Meta-analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- Environmental Exposures and Computational Mechanisms in Psychosis Risk: Insights from a Multi-Site Cohort.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Intact delay discounting but more optimal reward-based decisions in anorexia nervosa during an experiential task.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Schizotypal Personality Traits and Temporal Discounting: The Role of the Date/Delay Effect.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Association of temporal discounting with transdiagnostic symptom dimensions.Npj mental health research · 2024Article
- A review of risky decision-making in psychosis-spectrum disorders.Clinical psychology review · 2022Review
- Computerized Assessment of Psychosis Risk.Journal of psychiatry and brain science · 2021Article
- Delay discounting abnormalities are seen in first-episode schizophrenia but not in bipolar disorder.Schizophrenia research · 2020Article
- Risk tolerance measured by probability discounting among individuals with primary mood and psychotic disorders.Neuropsychology · 2019Article
- Time preferences are reliable across time-horizons and verbal versus experiential tasks.eLife · 2019Article
- Factors affecting treatment adherence among patients with hypertension based on the PRECEDE model: A cross-sectional study from a delay discounting perspective.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- Greater neural delay discounting on reward evaluation in anhedonia.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Delay discounting (DD) is a future-oriented decision-making process that refers to whether one is willing to forego a smaller, sooner reward for the sake of a larger, later reward. It can be assessed using hypothetical tasks, which involve choices between hypothetical rewards of varying amounts over delay periods of days to years, or experiential tasks, which involve receiving actual rewards in real time over delay periods of seconds to minutes. Initial studies in schizophrenia have only used hypothetical tasks and have been mixed in finding either elevated or normal levels of DD. One hundred thirty-one outpatients with schizophrenia and 70 healthy controls completed hypothetical and experiential DD tasks involving monetary rewards, and the schizophrenia group was retested after 4 weeks. Although both groups showed qualitatively similar hyperbolic discounting functions on both tasks, they showed a quantitative DD difference. The schizophrenia showed higher DD than controls on the experiential task but normal DD on the hypothetical task. This pattern was not attributable to a range of potential confounds, including smoking status, substance use disorder status, or neurocognition. It was also not attributable to differences in the test-retest reliability, which was good for both tasks. The schizophrenia group's robust pattern of altered experiential but normal hypothetical task performance points to key factors that may contribute to impaired DD in this disorder. These may include increased valuation of small (but not large) monetary rewards, or a hypersensitivity to costs associated with waiting inactively for those rewards. (PsycINFO Database Record
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