Temporal Patterning in Choice among Delayed Outcomes

Kudadjie-Gyamfi, Elizabeth; Rachlin, Howard

doi:10.1006/obhd.1996.0005

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“…Choice bracketing reveals the broader patterns of behavior that are less apparent when each choice is considered in isolation. Extensive research suggests that whereas isolated decision-making tends to promote indulging in temptation, choice bracketing effectively promotes future self-control (e.g., Ainslie & Monterosso, 2003;Kudadjie-Gyamfi & Rachlin, 1996;Read et al, 1999). We thus expected higher-level construals to increase choice bracketing in service of prospective self-control.…”

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“…In two experiments, we manipulated construal levels and assessed people's use of prospective selfcontrol strategies when faced with the prospect of a future selfcontrol dilemma. For target strategies, study 1 examined choice bracketing (mentally grouping repeated similar decisions rather than viewing them as isolated individual decisions; e.g., Kudadjie-Gyamfi & Rachlin, 1996;Read, Loewenstein, & Kalyanaraman, 1999), and study 2 examined self-imposed punishment for failure (e.g., Trope & Fishbach, 2000;Wertenbroch, 1998). In addition, in each study, we assessed how much people valued the goal imperiled by future temptations.…”

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Promoting prospective self-control through abstraction

Fujita

Roberts

2010

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Promoting prospective self-control through abstraction

Fujita

Roberts

2010

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…Otherwise, we found precisely the opposite. There is no question that patterning can enhance self-control in this procedure (e.g., Kudadjie-Gyamfi & Rachlin, 1996). Nor did we vary patterning in the manner of Kudadjie-Gyamfi and Rachlin (three short ITIs followed by a long one).…”

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Self-control in a Prisoner's Dilemma game: the role of trial spacing and an interfering task

Fantino

Gaitan

Meyer

et al. 2006

J. Behav. Decis. Making

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Self-control was studied in an iterated one-player Prisoner's Dilemma game in which students' choices affected the payoff matrix on the next trial. The frequency of selfcontrol responses (choice of the smaller payoff now, but with the more generous payoff matrix more likely on the next trial) and defection responses (choice of the larger payoff now, but with the less generous payoff matrix more likely on the next trial) were measured. In Experiment 1, players achieved a criterion of five consecutive self-control responses more quickly as a positive function of trial spacing, the presence between trials of a discriminative stimulus associated with the upcoming payoff matrix, and the probability that the self-control or defection response would be reciprocated by the computer. Experiment 2 replicated the effect of trial spacing except when there was an interfering task during the interval, suggesting that trial spacing permits better appreciation of the contingencies.

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“…and may thus be subjected to the same kinds of analyses and modeling of their distributions in time and space, for example, Markov Chain analysis (Grinstead and Snell, 2012), Iwao's omega (Iwao, 1977), and numerous other kinds of analyses. While Markov Chain models traditionally involve a minimum of contextual memory, T-pattern analysis is concerned with contextual effects in terms of multiordinal or complex-conditional probabilities between simple behaviors and patterns of these and is thus potentially useful in various molar approaches such as, for example, advocated by Rachlin (1986) and decision making processes as discussed by Rachlin and Siegel (1994), Kudadjie-Gyamfi and Rachlin (1996) among others. T-pattern analysis may thus find use within the growing multidisciplinary field of neuroeconomics (Glimcher, 2002;Egidi et al, 2008).…”

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T-pattern analysis for the study of temporal structure of animal and human behavior: A comprehensive review

Casarrubea

Jónsson

Faulisi

et al. 2015

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

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A basic tenet in the realm of modern behavioral sciences is that behavior consists of patterns in time. For this reason, investigations of behavior deal with sequences that are not easily perceivable by the unaided observer. This problem calls for improved means of detection, data handling and analysis. This review focuses on the analysis of the temporal structure of behavior carried out by means of a multivariate approach known as T-pattern analysis. Using this technique, recurring sequences of behavioral events, usually hard to detect, can be unveiled and carefully described. T-pattern analysis has been successfully applied in the study of various aspects of human or animal behavior such as behavioral modifications in neuro-psychiatric diseases, route-tracing stereotypy in mice, interaction between human subjects and animal or artificial agents, hormonal–behavioral interactions, patterns of behavior associated with emesis and, in our laboratories, exploration and anxiety-related behaviors in rodents. After describing the theory and concepts of T-pattern analysis, this review will focus on the application of the analysis to the study of the temporal characteristics of behavior in different species from rodents to human beings. This work could represent a useful background for researchers who intend to employ such a refined multivariate approach to the study of behavior

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Temporal Patterning in Choice among Delayed Outcomes

Cited by 57 publications

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Promoting prospective self-control through abstraction

Promoting prospective self-control through abstraction

Self-control in a Prisoner's Dilemma game: the role of trial spacing and an interfering task

T-pattern analysis for the study of temporal structure of animal and human behavior: A comprehensive review

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