Restricted psychological horizon in active methamphetamine users
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Restricted psychological horizon in active methamphetamine users: future, past, probability, and social discounting.
Methamphetamine users (MAU) exhibit an exaggerated bias for immediate rewards that reflects a restricted time horizon, where outcomes in the future are excessively discounted. An accumulating literature indicates that time in the future shares features with other dimensions of psychological distances including time in the past, probability, and social distance, suggesting that bias for immediac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioural Pharmacology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0955-8810
DOI: 10.1097/fbp.0b013e3283564e11