Delay Discounting Task
Alternate Names: Delay and Probability Discounting Procedure
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The Delay Discounting Task developed by Richards, Zhang, Mitchell, and De Wit (1999). The procedure uses a random adjustment algorithm to produce discount estimates (i.e., indifference points) for 10 different delays.
The Delay Discounting Task developed by Cherek, Moeller, Dougherty, and Rhoades (1997). The task provides a measure of impulsivity by evaluating discount rates for rewards delayed by 10 seconds.
An adaptation of the delay discounting task for adolescents used in the ABCD Consortium's longitudinal study on cognitive development from childhood to early adulthood.
An adaptation of the delay discounting task for adolescents used in the ABCD Consortium's longitudinal study on cognitive development from childhood to early adulthood.
An adaptation of the delay discounting task for adolescents used in the ABCD Consortium's longitudinal study on cognitive development from childhood to early adulthood.
Then Experiential Delay Discounting Task used by Reynolds & Schiffbauer (2004) to measure value assigned by a participant to experienced delays.
A brief, 5-question delay discounting task that takes under a minute to administer designed by Koffarnus, Warren, and Bickel (2014).
The Delay Discounting Task involving money and food. The task modeled off of the task used by Odum, Baumann, and Rimington (2006) and in developmenet by Leonard Epstein et al (2010).
References
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Cherek, D. R., Moeller, F. G, Dougherty, D. M., Rhoades, H. (1997). Studies of Violent and Nonviolent Male Parolees: II. Laboratory and Psychometric Measurements of Impulsivity. Biological Psychiatry, 41, 523-529.
Richards, J. B., Zhang, L., Mitchell, S. H., De Wit, H. (1999). Delay or probability discounting in a model of impulsive behavior: Effect of alcohol. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 121-143.
Madden, G. J., Bickel, W. K., Jacobs, E. A. (1999). Discounting of Delayed Rewards in Opioid-Dependent Outpatients: Exponential or Hyperbolic Discounting Functions? Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 7, 284-293.
Moeller, F. G., Dougherty, D. M, Barratt, E. S., Oderinde, V, Mathias, C. W., Harper, R. A., Swann, A. C. (2002). Increased impulsivity in cocaine dependent subjects independent of antisocial personality disorder and aggression, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 68, 105-111.
Reynolds, B. & Schiffbauer, R. (2004). Measuring state changes in human delay discounting: an experiential discounting task. Behavioural Processes, 67, 343–356.
Odum, A.L., Baumann, A.A.L., Rimington, D.D. (2006). Discounting of delayed hypothetical money and food: Effects of amount. Behavioural Processes, 73, 278-284.
Odum, A.L., Baumann, A.A.L., Rimington, D.D. (2006). Discounting of delayed hypothetical money and food: Effects of amount. Behavioural Processes, 73, 278-284.
Robles, E., Vargas, P. A., Bejarano, R. (2009). Within-subject differences in degree of delay discounting as a function of order of presentation of hypothetical cash rewards. Behavioral Processes, 81, 260-263.
Epstein, L. H., Salvy, S. J., Carr, K. A., Dearing, K. K., & Bickel, W. K. (July 01, 2010). Food reinforcement, delay discounting and obesity. Physiology & Behavior, 100, 5, 438-445.
Smits,R.R, Stein,J.S., Johnson, P.S., Odum, A.L., & Madden, G.J. (2013). Test–Retest Reliability and Construct Validity of the Experiential Discounting Task. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 21, 155–163.
Koffarnus, M.N. & and Warren K. Bickel, W.K (2014). A 5-Trial Adjusting Delay Discounting Task: Accurate Discount Rates in Less Than One Minute. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 22, 222–228.
Tucker, J., Cheong, J., Chandler, S., Lambert, B., Kwok, H., & Pietrzak, B. (2016). Behavioral economic indicators of drinking problem severity and initial outcomes among problem drinkers attempting natural recovery: A cross‐sectional naturalistic study. Addiction, 111(11), 1956-1965.
Friedel, J., DeHart, W., Frye, C., Rung, J., Odum, A., & Evans, Suzette M. (2016). Discounting of Qualitatively Different Delayed Health Outcomes in Current and Never Smokers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 24(1), 18-29.
Stein, J., Sze, S., Athamneh, Y., Koffarnus, L., Epstein, M., & Bickel, N. (2017). Think fast: Rapid assessment of the effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting in overweight/obese participants. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 40(5), 832-838.
Luciana, M, Bjork, J.M, Nagel, B.J, Barch, D.M, Gonzalez, R, Nixon, S.J, & Banich, M.T. (2018). Adolescent neurocognitive development and impacts of substance use: Overview of the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) baseline neurocognition battery. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 67-79.