Primary Recipient

UNIVERISTY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$296,000.00

Award Date

5/21/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Imposing delay between a behavior and its reinforcer weakens the effectiveness of that reinforcer and decreases its subjective value, a phenomenon referred to as temporal discounting. There is a well-established mathematical model, the hyperbolic discoun