Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2021
Bleak present, bright future: II. Combined effects of episodic future thinking and scarcity on delay discounting in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03664726 (Delay Discounting as a Target for Self-Regulation in Prediabetes), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers.
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Delay Discounting as a Target for Self-Regulation in Prediabetes
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Income shock increases preferences for smaller immediate rewards and reduces alcohol demand among a sample of crowd-sourced adults.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Trial
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- Delay Discounting and the Income-Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox in Mothers.Journal of obesity · 2023Trial
- Latent Heterogeneity in the Impact of Financial Coaching on Delay Discounting among Low-Income Smokers: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Hypothetical food purchase tasks and eating behavior: A systematized review and future directions.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Review
- Episodic Future Thinking as an Intervention for Alcohol Use Disorder: Effects on Delay Discounting and Real-World Alcohol Consumption.Research square · 2026Article
- Scoping review of episodic future thinking and delay discounting observed in Alzheimer's disease, depression, and PTSD.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Mediating Role of Delay Discounting in the Link Between Depressive Symptoms and Diabetes Onset: Findings from a Prospective Survey of a Community Sample.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Perceived reward certainty in the assessment of delay discounting.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Narrative episodic future thinking reduces delay discounting and enhances goal salience in the general population: an online feasibility study.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- What's in a cue?: Using natural language processing to quantify content characteristics of episodic future thinking in the context of overweight and obesity.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Human laboratory models of reward in substance use disorder.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2024Review
- Examining the association between delay discounting, delay aversion and physical activity in Chinese adults with type-2 diabetes mellitus.World journal of diabetes · 2024Article
- Tunneling, cognitive load and time orientation and their relations with dietary behavior of people experiencing financial scarcity - an AI-assisted scoping review elaborating on scarcity theory.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Disrupting future discounting: a commentary on an underutilised psychological approach for improving adherence to diet and physical activity interventions.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- A hypothetical lottery task to assess relative resource allocation toward alcohol and cannabis.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment.Behavioural processes · 2023Article
- Scarcity Enhances Outcome Evaluation in the Present: Electroencephalography Evidence.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Prediction of delay discounting in intertemporal decisions by future thinking: Accounting for fluency, contents, and functions of future thoughts.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Testing and Optimizing Guided Thinking Tasks to Promote Physical Activity: Protocol for a Randomized Factorial Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
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Abstract
The present study sought to determine if episodic future thinking (EFT) can decrease delay discounting (DD) and demand for fast food under simulations of economic scarcity in adults at risk for diabetes (i.e., overweight/obese and with hemoglobin A1c values in, or approaching, the prediabetic range). Across two sessions, participants completed assessments of DD and food demand at baseline and while prompted to: (1) engage in either EFT or control episodic recent thinking, and (2) while reading a brief narrative describing either economic scarcity or neutral income conditions. Results showed that EFT significantly reduced DD, whereas the economic scarcity narrative significantly increased DD; no significant interaction between EFT and scarcity was observed. No significant effect of either EFT or scarcity was observed on food demand. We conclude that EFT decreases DD even when challenged by simulated economic scarcity in adults at risk for diabetes. The absence of a significant interaction between EFT and scarcity suggests that these variables operate independently to influence DD in opposing directions. Effects of EFT and economic scarcity on food demand require further study. The present study was registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03664726).
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