Sentences with phrase «larger delayed rewards»
This shift in in dopamine release and associated tendency to choose smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards is consistent with the phenomenon of delay discounting.
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In a study of 602 twins, Dr. Andrey Anokhin and his colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine found that delay discounting gradually improves as teens get older, such that 18 year - olds have a greater ability or tendency to wait for the larger delayed reward, as compared to younger teens.
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Next, using a technique known as optogenetics in a second set of rats, they precisely controlled the activity of dopamine neurons during cues that signaled large or delayed rewards.
Senior author Dr. Regina Carelli explained their findings, «We found that dopamine signaled the more preferred option; more dopamine was observed for cues signaling immediate large rewards, but this declined as the delay to the large reward increased.»
A person's ability to delay gratification — forgoing a smaller reward now for a larger reward in the future — may depend on how trustworthy the person perceives the reward - giver to be, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Triggering pathological gamblers to envision a future personal experience reduces their preference for an immediate reward over a larger, delayed award, according to a study published in eNeuro.
122 participants saw both independent and sequence framed options and expressed stronger preferences for the larger, delayed reward when choices were framed as sequences.
It's a term used primarily in the field of behavioral finance, and it's defined as «the tendency for people to increasingly choose a smaller / sooner reward over a larger / later reward, as the delay occurs sooner rather than later in time.»
One index of such behavior is termed delay discounting, which reflects an individual's relative preference for smaller, immediate rewards over larger rewards delayed in time (Green and Myerson, 2004).