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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Emotional Experiences Interact with Monetary Reward Values to Predict Variation in Discounting Rate throughout Daily Life

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Personality/Emotion

  • Matt Coleman
    Northeastern University
  • Mallory Feldman
    University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Catie Nielson
    Northeastern University
  • Katie Hoemann
    Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven
  • Zulqarnain Khan
    Northeastern University
  • Madeleine Devlin
    Northeastern University
  • Jennifer Dy
    Northeastern University
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett
    Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett
    Northeastern University
  • Karen Quigley
    Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital
  • Karen Quigley
    Northeastern University
  • Jolie Wormwood
    University of New Hampshire

Abstract

Within-person changes in intertemporal choice were assessed throughout participants’ daily lives using experience sampling. Results partially supported previous lab-based findings concerning associations between specific emotional states and intertemporal choice (e.g., sadness being associated with greater impatience). However, effects were critically moderated by contextual variables, including the monetary value being considered.

Emotion