Measuring Delay Discounting in Humans Using an Adjusting Amount Task

“…The delay-discounting task was an adjusting amount task (Du, Green, & Myerson, 2002; Frye, Galizio, Friedel, DeHart, & Odum, 2016; Rodzon, Berry, & Odum, 2011), and the procedures used are similar to those reported in Friedel et al (2016). In a trial of the delay-discounting task, participants made a choice between a smaller hypothetical amount of an outcome that was to be delivered immediately and a larger hypothetical amount of that same outcome that was to be delivered after a delay.…”