TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Impulsive people have a compulsion for immediate gratification-certain or uncertain
JO  - Frontiers in psychology
A1  - Białaszek, Wojciech
A1  - Gaik, Maciej
A1  - McGoun, Elton
A1  - Zielonka, Piotr
SP  - e515
EP  - e515
VL  - 6
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1664-1078
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00515
ID  - ref1
ER  -