Journal
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 256-262Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.03.009
Keywords
decision-making; delay discounting; cigarette smoking; tobacco; behavioral economics; impulsivity
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- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA011692, R01 DA011692-09, R01 DA011692-07, R01DA11692, R01 DA011692-08] Funding Source: Medline
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A considerable body of evidence indicates that consideration of the future and past are related. Future discounting studies indicate that cigarette smokers discount future outcomes more than non-smokers. The purpose of the present study was to determine if a similar profile of results could be obtained with a novel procedure evaluating the discounting of past outcomes, providing further support for future/past symmetry. Thirty cigarette smokers and 29 non-smokers participated in a computerized assessment of discounting of hypothetical future and past outcomes. Symmetry was supported, with a similar profile of results in future and past discounting procedures. These included: hyperbolic discounting, greater discounting of small-magnitude outcomes than large-magnitude outcomes, and greater discounting by cigarette smokers relative to non-smokers. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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