@article{ref1,
title="Impulsive people have a compulsion for immediate gratification-certain or uncertain",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2015",
author="Białaszek, Wojciech and Gaik, Maciej and McGoun, Elton and Zielonka, Piotr",
volume="6",
number="",
pages="e515-e515",
abstract="Impulsivity has been defined as choosing the smaller more immediate reward over a larger more delayed reward. The purpose of this research was to gain a deeper understanding of the mental processes involved in the decision making. We examined participants' rates of delay discounting and probability discounting to determine their correlation with time-probability trade-offs. To establish the time-probability trade-off rate, participants adjusted a risky, immediate payoff to a delayed, certain payoff. In effect, this yielded a probability equivalent of waiting time. We found a strong, positive correlation between delay discount rates and the time-probability trade-offs. This means that impulsive people have a compulsion for immediate gratification, independent of whether the immediate reward is certain or uncertain. Thus, they seem not to be concerned with risk but rather with time.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00515",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00515"
}