title: Testing the effect of risk on intertemporal choice in the Chinese cultural context.
abstract: Previous studies using Western samples have found that introducing uncertainty to an intertemporal choice decreases the degree of discounting future rewards. The authors of this article examined the effect of risk on intertemporal choice using Chinese participants and found that respondents preferred the smaller but sooner (SS) outcome to the larger but later (LL) one in the presence of risk, which indicates that risk increases rather than decreases the degree of discounting future rewards. Thus, variations in response patterns between different cultural groups suggest that culture may play an important role in intertemporal choice and researchers should delve into this topic from an emic rather than an etic perspective.
authors.affiliation: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Key Laboratory of Behavioral Sciences, 4A Datun Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Shu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D003469:Culture; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012201:Reward; D012306:Risk; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013995:Time; D035501:Uncertainty