Sentences with phrase «prefer immediate gratification»

And when people lack vividness of their future self, they will not allocate resources to the future self and instead will prefer immediate gratification.

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Frederick et al. (2002) found that individuals with high discount rates tend to make decisions based on their desire for immediate gratification, and individuals with low discount rates prefer to delay gratification to obtain a better reward in the future.

In essence, as do most individuals, scientists prefer immediate over delayed gratification, a practice that Hansen believes «may contribute to irrational reticence even among rational scientists» (for full list of cited references, see original article here).