Thinking about neither death nor poverty affects delay discounting, but episodic foresight does: Three replications of the effects of priming on time preferences

Richard Tunney, Jodie Raybould

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Abstract

We outline three attempts to replicate experiments that reported priming effects on time preferences measured by delay discounting. Experiment 1 tested the claim that images of poverty prime impulsive choice in people from less affluent backgrounds compared with people from more affluent backgrounds. Experiment 2 tested the claim that mortality salience—thinking about death—primes people to place more value on the future than people who thought about dental surgery. Experiment 3 tested the claim that an episodic foresight manipulation primes greater discounting than no episodic foresight. Experiments 1 and 2 failed to replicate the effects of priming on discount rates. Experiment 3 was a successful and very close replication of the effect of episodic foresight on discount rates.

Original languageEnglish
JournalQuarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Early online date14 Apr 2022
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 14 Apr 2022

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Keywords

  • Social priming
  • delay discounting
  • impulsivity
  • mortality salience
  • replication
  • scarcity
  • time preference

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