ArticlePerspectives on behavior science2019
Changing Delay Discounting and Impulsive Choice: Implications for Addictions, Prevention, and Human Health.
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- Effects of different exercise types on craving in substance use disorder patients with drug dependence -network meta-analysis and dose-response relationships based on frequentist and Bayesian models.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Pooled it
- Problem Gambling and its Relation to Delayed Reward Discounting: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Trial
- A web-based episodic specificity and future thinking session modulates delay discounting in cannabis users.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Trial
- The Genoeconomics of Impulsive Intertemporal Choice: A Critical Review.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Review
- Combined maternal separation and limited bedding-nesting increase goal tracking, delay discounting, and impulsive action, and moderate sign-tracking-perseverance associations in male rats.BMC neuroscience · 2026Article
- Associations Between Steep Delay Discounting and Punishment Learning.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Ethanol self-administration reduced the efficacy of a behavioral intervention to decrease cocaine choice in socially housed male and female monkeys.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Behavior Analysis at a Macro Level: The Case for Behavior Analysts in Public Policy Work.Behavior analysis in practice · 2025Article
- The functional connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the medial prefrontal cortex underlying the association between self-control and delay discounting.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Delay discounting is associated with addiction and mental health measures while controlling for health behaviors and health barriers in a large US sample.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Initial evidence of delay discounting's predictive utility for alcohol self-administration in ecologically valid contexts among young adults who drink heavily.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Designing and Validating a Novel Method for Assessing Delay Discounting Associated With Health Behaviors: Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
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- White matter-based brain network topological properties associated with individual impulsivity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain.Learning & behavior · 2023Review
- Are the attention checks embedded in delay discounting tasks a valid marker for data quality?Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Delay discounting as a behavioral phenotype associated with social rank in female and male cynomolgus monkeys: Correlation with kappa opioid receptor availability.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Article
- Sequential delay and probability discounting tasks in mice reveal anchoring effects partially attributable to decision noise.Behavioural brain research · 2022Article
- Motivational and myopic mechanisms underlying dopamine medication-induced impulsive-compulsive behaviors in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Applied Quantitative Analysis of Behavior: What It Is, and Why We Care-Introduction to the Special Section.Perspectives on behavior science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Delay discounting describes the tendency to devalue delayed consequences or future prospects. The degree to which an individual discounts delayed events appears trait-like in that it is stable over time and across functionally similar situations. Steeply discounting delayed rewards is correlated with most substance-use disorders, the severity of these disorders, rates of relapse to drug use, and a host of other maladaptive decisions impacting human health. Longitudinal data suggest steep delay discounting and high levels of impulsive choice are predictive of subsequent drug taking, which suggests (though does not establish) that reducing delay discounting could have a preventive health-promoting effect. Experimental manipulations that produce momentary or long-lasting reductions in delay discounting or impulsive choice are reviewed, and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie these effects are discussed. Shortcomings of each manipulation technique are discussed and areas for future research are identified. While much work remains, it is clear that impulsive decision-making can be reduced, despite its otherwise trait-like qualities. Such findings invite technique refinement, translational research, and hope.
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