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    J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 1996 May;22(3):771-91.

    Temporal discounting and utility for health and money.

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    Department of Medical Education (M/C 591), University of Illinois at Chicago 60612-7309, USA. gchapman@uic.edu

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    • J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 1997 Mar;23(2):279.

    Abstract

    In 3 experiments, choices for hypothetical amounts of future health and money showed that, contrary to normative discounted utility theory, the temporal discount rate, or annual percentage increase in value needed to offset a delay, differed for the 2 domains. Domain independence, defined as the low correlation between health and money discount rates relative to the consistency within each domain, was not due to different utility functions for health and money. Consistent with other research, these results suggest that decision domain affects the cognitive processes used. Despite this domain difference, there were some similarities between the 2 domains. Both health and money decisions revealed that discount rates were larger for short delays, small magnitudes, and gains as compared with losses.

    PMID:
    8656156
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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