ArticleHealth behavior and policy review2019
Primed for Health: Future Thinking Priming Decreases Delay Discounting.
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- Internal Validity of Two Promising Methods of Altering Temporal Orientation among Cigarette Smokers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Landscape exposure and exercising for health: exposure to natural versus urban landscapes promotes walking for health.Australian journal of psychology · 2025Article
- Associations between PTSD and temporal discounting: The role of future thinking.Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2024Article
- Future Thinking Priming Especially Effective at Modifying Delay Discounting Rates among Cigarette Smokers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Are Impulsive Decisions Always Irrational? An Experimental Investigation of Impulsive Decisions in the Domains of Gains and Losses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Evaluating Future Thinking Priming Effects on Delay Discounting Among Young Adult Drinkers.International journal of psychological researchArticle
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Abstract
objectiveDelay discounting, the propensity to devalue delayed rewards, has robust predictive validity for multiple health behaviors and is a new therapeutic target for health behavior change. Priming can influence behaviors in a predictable manner. We aimed to use the Future Thinking Priming task, administered remotely, to reliably decrease delay discounting rates.
methodsIn this pre-post randomized control group design, participants completed multiple delay discounting measures at baseline; then, 2 weeks later, they were randomized to Future Thinking Priming or Neutral Priming conditions. We hypothesized that Future Thinking Priming would significantly decrease delay discounting rates accounting for baseline delay discounting rates and time in repeated measures analyses.
resultsParticipants randomized to Future Thinking Priming (N = 783) demonstrated significantly lower delay discounting rates post-intervention than those randomized to Neutral Priming (N = 747) on multiple delay discounting measures and magnitudes.
conclusionsA single administration of Future Thinking Priming produces statistically reliable reductions in delay discounting rates. The task is brief, can be administered remotely, and is highly scalable. If found to support behavior change, the task might be disseminated broadly to enhance evidence-based behavior change interventions. Future research must determine optimal exposure patterns to support durable health behavior change.
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