ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2018
Impulsive choice and pre-exposure to delays: iv. effects of delay- and immediacy-exposure training relative to maturational changes in impulsivity.
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- The Genoeconomics of Impulsive Intertemporal Choice: A Critical Review.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Review
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- Using sign tracking to experimentally increase self-control in rats.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Relationship between two forms of impulsivity in mice at baseline and under acute and sub-chronic atomoxetine treatment.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2023Article
- Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain.Learning & behavior · 2023Review
- Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats.Behavioural processes · 2022Article
- Hazard function effects on promoting self-control in variable interval time-based interventions in rats.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2021Article
- Reducing impulsive choice VII: effects of duration of delay-exposure training.Animal cognition · 2021Article
- A time-based intervention to treat impulsivity in male and female rats.Behavioural brain research · 2020Article
- Reducing impulsive choice: VI. Delay-exposure training reduces aversion to delay-signaling stimuli.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
- Changing Delay Discounting and Impulsive Choice: Implications for Addictions, Prevention, and Human Health.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- Cognitive and behavioral training interventions to promote self-control.Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition · 2019Review
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- Impulsiveness and Cognitive Patterns. Understanding the Perfectionistic Responses in Spanish Competitive Junior Athletes.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Reducing impulsive choice: V. The role of timing in delay-exposure training.Behavioural processes · 2018Article
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Abstract
Impulsive choice describes preference for smaller, sooner rewards over larger, later rewards. Excessive delay discounting (i.e., rapid devaluation of delayed rewards) underlies some impulsive choices, and is observed in many maladaptive behaviors (e.g., substance abuse, gambling). Interventions designed to reduce delay discounting may provide therapeutic gains. One such intervention provides rats with extended training with delayed reinforcers. When compared to a group given extended training with immediate reinforcers, delay-exposed rats make significantly fewer impulsive choices. To what extent is this difference due to delay-exposure training shifting preference toward self-control or immediacy-exposure training (the putative control group) shifting preference toward impulsivity? The current study compared the effects of delay- and immediacy-exposure training to a no-training control group and evaluated within-subject changes in impulsive choice across 51 male Wistar rats. Delay-exposed rats made significantly fewer impulsive choices than immediacy-exposed and control rats. Between-group differences in impulsive choice were not observed in the latter two groups. While delay-exposed rats showed large, significant pre- to posttraining reductions in impulsive choice, immediacy-exposed and control rats showed small reductions in impulsive choice. These results suggest that extended training with delayed reinforcers reduces impulsive choice, and that extended training with immediate reinforcers does not increase impulsive choice.
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