ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2021
Delay discounting, cognitive ability, and personality: What matters?
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- Delay discounting and anxiety: a systematic review on current evidence for clinical and non-clinical population.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Examining the effects of varenicline and naltrexone on delay discounting among individuals with alcohol use disorder.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Trial
- Less systematic decision-making during delay discounting, but not discounting rate, is robustly linked to psychopathology.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Modeling the Associations Between Personality, Cognition, and Social Determinants in Relation to Substance Use Disorder Severity in Community Adults.Substance use & misuse · 2026Article
- Behavioral Impaired Control over Alcohol: Comparing Self-Medication and Behavioral Economic Models with the Interacting Effects of Acute Stress, Chronic Stress with Physical Neglect History, and Sex Assigned at Birth.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Comparative Study of Delay Discounting Rates in Alcohol and Opioid Dependence in Northern India.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine · 2026Article
- Toward Safer Diagnoses: A SEIPS-Based Narrative Review of Diagnostic Errors.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The negative intelligence-religiosity link may be differentiated according to cognitive testFrontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Dynamic Functional Connectivity Between Amygdala and Cognitive Control Network Predicts Delay Discounting in Older Adolescents.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Cognitive-Affective Factors Linking Experiences of Daily Discrimination with Adult Psychopathology and Risky Health Behaviors.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Delay discounting predicts COVID-19 vaccine booster willingness.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- Atypical reward anticipation in impulsive individuals: evidence from EEG and experiential delay discounting.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Age-related differences in delay discounting: Income matters.Psychology and aging · 2024Article
- The computational and neural substrates of individual differences in impulsivity under loss framework.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Examining the association between delay discounting, delay aversion and physical activity in Chinese adults with type-2 diabetes mellitus.World journal of diabetes · 2024Article
- Patients with episodic migraine without aura have an increased rate of delayed discounting.Brain and behavior · 2024Article
- Using rodent data to elucidate dopaminergic mechanisms of ADHD: Implications for human personality.Personality neuroscience · 2024Review
- Differential Neural Correlates in the Prefrontal Cortex during a Delay Discounting Task in Healthy Adults: An fNIRS Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Development of a cortical delay discounting assay: a potential biomarker of externalizing disorders.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Investigating associations of delay discounting with brain structure, working memory, and episodic memory.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Steep delay discounting is associated with problems such as addiction, obesity, and risky sexual behavior that are frequently described as reflecting impulsiveness and lack of self-control, but it may simply indicate poor cognitive functioning. The present investigation took advantage of the unique opportunity provided by the Human Connectome Project (N=1,206) to examine the relation between delay discounting and 11 cognitive tasks as well as the Big Five fundamental personality traits. With income level and education statistically controlled, discounting was correlated with only four of the 11 cognitive abilities evaluated, although the rs were all small (<.20). Importantly, the two discounting measures loaded on their own factor. Discounting was not correlated with Neuroticism or Conscientiousness, traits related to psychometric impulsiveness and self-control. These findings suggest that steep delay discounting is not simply an indicator of poor cognitive functioning or psychometric impulsiveness but an important individual difference characteristic in its own right.
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