The absence of numbers to express the amount may affect delay discounting with humans

被引:2
作者
Reyes-Huerta, Hugo E. [1 ]
dos Santos, Cristiano V. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
关键词
delay discounting; magnitude effect; numbers; logarithmic scale; humans; SELF-CONTROL; REWARDS; PROBABILITY; CHOICE; REINFORCERS; NUMEROSITY; PARAMETERS; ACCURACY; ANIMALS; PIGEONS;
D O I
10.1002/jeab.218
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Human delay discounting is usually studied with experimental protocols that use symbols to express delay and amount. In order to further understand discounting, we evaluated whether the absence of numbers to represent reward amounts affects discount rate in general, and whether the magnitude effect is generalized to nonsymbolic situations in particular. In Experiment 1, human participants were exposed to a delay-discounting task in which rewards were presented using dots to represent monetary rewards (nonsymbolic); under this condition the magnitude effect did not occur. Nevertheless, the magnitude effect was observed when equivalent reward amounts were presented using numbers (symbolic). Moreover, in estimation tasks, magnitude increments produced underestimation of large amounts. In Experiment 2, participants were exposed only to the nonsymbolic discounting task and were required to estimate reward amounts in each trial. Consistent with Experiment 1, the absence of numbers representing reward amounts produced similar discount rates of small and large rewards. These results suggest that value of nonsymbolic rewards is a nonlinear function of amount and that value attribution depends on perceived difference between the immediate and the delayed nonsymbolic rewards.
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页数:17
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