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ArticleDecision (Washington, D.C.)2024

Discounting Future Reward in an Uncertain World.

G W Story, Z Kurth-Nelson, M Moutoussis, K Iigaya, G-J Will, T U Hauser, B Blain, I Vlaev, R J Dolan

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Article in Decision (Washington, D.C.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Addressing Altered Anticipation as a Transdiagnostic Target Through Computational Psychiatry.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025
    Review
  5. Discounting Future Reward in an Uncertain World.Decision (Washington, D.C.) · 2024
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

G W StoryDivision of Psychiatry, University College London.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7578-4426
Z Kurth-NelsonMax Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Institute of Neurology, University College London.
M MoutoussisMax Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Institute of Neurology, University College London.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-0425
K IigayaMax Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Institute of Neurology, University College London.
G-J WillWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London.
T U HauserMax Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Institute of Neurology, University College London.
B BlainMax Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Institute of Neurology, University College London.
I VlaevWarwick Business School, University of Warwick.
R J DolanMax Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Institute of Neurology, University College London.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9356-761X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans discount delayed relative to more immediate reward. A plausible explanation is that impatience arises partly from uncertainty, or risk, implicit in delayed reward. Existing theories of discounting-as-risk focus on a probability that delayed reward will not materialize. By contrast, we examine how uncertainty in the magnitude of delayed reward contributes to delay discounting. We propose a model wherein reward is discounted proportional to the rate of random change in its magnitude across time, termed

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discountingimpulsivityriskuncertaintyvolatility

Identifiers

PMID40162322
PMCPMC11949085

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