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Beyond delay: Discounting rewards for self-control Justin Wahlers (24601128) Seung-Lark Lim (2555899) Cognitive and computational psychology not elsewhere classified Decision making Learning, motivation and emotion intertemporal choice behaviour self-control <p dir="ltr">Conventional intertemporal choice measures (e.g., delay discounting) often focus on the cost of waiting for a reward. Yet, achieving many long-term health goals also requires continuously exerting self-control while forgoing an immediately rewarding alternative. To quantify these subjective costs, we introduced a novel abstinence discounting paradigm and tested it in a consequential context: nicotine use. Abstinence discounting assessed one’s preference for larger monetary rewards contingent on maintaining nicotine abstinence versus smaller, noncontingent monetary rewards that do not require abstinence.</p> 2026-09-15T15:32:52Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.33756790.v3 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Beyond_delay_Discounting_rewards_for_self-control/33756790 CC BY 4.0