ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022
Intertemporal choice reflects value comparison rather than self-control: insights from confidence judgements.
Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Imagining emotional events benefits future-oriented decisions.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2022Trial
- Development and Validation of the Chinese Employee Intertemporal Decision-Making Ability Scale.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A large-scale dataset of choice and response-time data in intertemporal choice.Scientific data · 2026Article
- The temporal dynamics of self-control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Neural basis of self-control.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Dynamic Functional Connectivity Between Amygdala and Cognitive Control Network Predicts Delay Discounting in Older Adolescents.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Willing to wait: Anorexia nervosa symptomatology is associated with higher future orientation and reduced intertemporal discounting.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Frontopolar Cortex Interacts With Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex to Causally Guide Metacognition.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Temporal discounting predicts procrastination in the real world.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Humans can infer social preferences from decision speed alone.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Waiting for it: Anorexia Risk, Future Orientation, and Intertemporal Discounting.Research square · 2024Article
- Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Intertemporal choice reflects value comparison rather than self-control: insights from confidence judgements.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Metacognitive deficits are associated with lower sensitivity to preference reversals in nicotine dependence.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The effect of incentives on intertemporal choice: Choice, confidence, and eye movements.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Subjective Time in Dementia: A Critical Review.Brain sciences · 2021Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Intertemporal decision-making has long been assumed to measure self-control, with prominent theories treating choices of smaller, sooner rewards as failed attempts to override immediate temptation. If this view is correct, people should be more confident in their intertemporal decisions when they 'successfully' delay gratification than when they do not. In two pre-registered experiments with built-in replication, adult participants (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.