Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Rationally inattentive intertemporal choice

  • Samuel J. Gershman,
  • Rahul Bhui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16852-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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People are disproportionately more patient when evaluating larger rewards. Here, the authors show how this magnitude effect may reflect an adaptive response to uncertainty in mental representations of future value.