Title

Contrived motivating operations alter delay-discounting values of disordered gamblers

Abstract

The present study required 9 disordered gamblers to make hypothetical selections between smaller and larger amounts of money at varying delays. Participants were also required to respond to the task given the contrived hypothetical conditions of earning twice or half as much as they did at their current jobs. The results demonstrated how participants’ delay discounting was altered via contrived motivating operations, strengthening the argument that discounting may be a state variable.

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.335

Keywords

motivating operations, pathological gambling, temporal discounting

Publication Date

12-1-2016

Journal Title

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

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