The temporal window of valuation is constricted among adolescent smokers.
Healthy decisions are associated with valuation of the future whereas unhealthy decisions are associated with devaluation of the future. Comparisons of future discounting of delayed rewards in adolescent smokers and non-smokers have been equivocal and past discounting of monetary gains has not been reported in adolescents. Here, adolescents completed future and past delay discounting tasks. A mixed-model analysis of covariance using a model with the lowest Bayesian Information Criterion revealed that adolescents discount the past more than the future and smokers discount more than non-smokers. These results suggest that adolescent smokers have a constricted temporal window, which may lead to disadvantageous decisions.
Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Roanoke, 2 Riverside Cir, VA, United States.
Amanda J
AJ
Quisenberry
Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Roanoke, 2 Riverside Cir, VA, United States.
Alexander
A
Bianco
Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Roanoke, 2 Riverside Cir, VA, United States.
Kirstin M
KM
Gatchalian
Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Roanoke, 2 Riverside Cir, VA, United States; Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, United States.
Jungmeen
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Kim-Spoon
Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Roanoke, 2 Riverside Cir, VA, United States; Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, United States. Electronic address: wkbickel@vtc.vt.edu.
Warren K
WK
Bickel
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003657:Decision Making; D065786:Delay Discounting; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors
Adolescents; Behavioral economics; Delay discounting; Smokers; Temporal window