Jeff Stein
@jsstein.bsky.social
Health behaviors researcher | Asst Professor @fralinbiomed.bsky.social and Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Tech | Views are just a product of my learning history
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Take-home: perceived uncertainty about future rewards is related to higher delay discounting. This appears baked into the task even when specifying that rewards are 100% certain.
Take-home: perceived uncertainty about future rewards is related to higher delay discounting. This appears baked into the task even when specifying that rewards are 100% certain.
Perceived reward certainty in the assessment of delay discounting
Reward delays are often associated with reduced probability of reward, although standard assessments of delay discounting do not specify degree of reward certainty. Thus, the extent to which estimate...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jeab.70044
Take-home: perceived uncertainty about future rewards is related to higher delay discounting. This appears baked into the task even when specifying that rewards are 100% certain.
Take-home: perceived uncertainty about future rewards is related to higher delay discounting. This appears baked into the task even when specifying that rewards are 100% certain.
I'll pass it along thx
April 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I'll pass it along thx
Yes, generally. And especially if you're referring to the ceiling effect in violin plots. Starting to think a table is a better place for those data.
April 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Yes, generally. And especially if you're referring to the ceiling effect in violin plots. Starting to think a table is a better place for those data.
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My colleagues and I showed that if you instruct participants to respond systematically, reliability is fine. So: anxious participants are not responding systematically.
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January 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My colleagues and I showed that if you instruct participants to respond systematically, reliability is fine. So: anxious participants are not responding systematically.
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Plenty of variability within cultures, too. So unless someone on the committee knows the letter writer and can help interpret the presence or absence of hyperbole, it's like reading tea leaves. Quantitative ratings would be more informative in most cases.
November 25, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Plenty of variability within cultures, too. So unless someone on the committee knows the letter writer and can help interpret the presence or absence of hyperbole, it's like reading tea leaves. Quantitative ratings would be more informative in most cases.
... after finding it by mistake when searching for an unrelated email thread
November 20, 2024 at 11:56 PM
... after finding it by mistake when searching for an unrelated email thread