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Direct linkDixon, Mark R.; Jacobs, Eric A.; Sanders, Scott – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2006
The present study demonstrated the relative impact of gambling and nongambling contexts on the degree of delay discounting by pathological gamblers. We used a delay-discounting task with 20 pathological gamblers in and out of the natural context in which they regularly gambled. For 16 of the 20 participants, it appeared that the difference of…
Descriptors: Rewards, Delay of Gratification, Context Effect, Risk
