Devil Takes the Hindmost: An Investigation of Reducing Delay Discounting of Negativity

DOI: 10.5176/2251-1865_CBP26

Authors: Yeonsoon Shin, Hyeyoung Kim and Sanghoon Han

Abstract: • Procrastination: An irrational choice of delaying work in high priority, so as to avoid unpleasantness (i.e., task aversiveness, Ferrari, Johnson, & McCown, 1995)involved in the task

• Delay Gratification of Rewards: Subjective reward value decreases as a function of delay (Mazur, 1987)

• Episodic Future Thinking’s Effect on Delay Gratification: Reducing delay discounting rates of rewards (Peters & Büchel, 2010)