Chen Cheng, He Guibing
Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2016 Mar 7;7:304. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00304. eCollection 2016.
In this information age, messages related to time, and uncertainty surround us. At the same time, our daily lives are filled with decisions accompanied by temporal delay or uncertainty. Will such information influence our temporal and probabilistic discounting? The authors address this question from the perspectives of decision by sampling (DbS) theory and psychological distance theory. Studies 1 and 2 investigated the effect of contextual messages on temporal discounting and probabilistic discounting, respectively. The results indicated that participants who memorized messages about long-term and low-probability events rated delay or uncertainty as mentally closer and exhibited a less degree of value discounting than those who memorized messages regarding short-term and high-probability events. In addition, a sense of distance from present or reality mediated the effect of contextual messages on value discounting. The implications of the current findings for theory and applications are discussed.
在这个信息时代，与时间和不确定性相关的信息充斥着我们。与此同时，我们的日常生活中充满了伴随着时间延迟或不确定性的决策。这样的信息会影响我们的时间和概率折扣吗？作者从抽样决策（DbS）理论和心理距离理论的角度探讨了这个问题。研究1和研究2分别调查了情境信息对时间折扣和概率折扣的影响。结果表明，记住关于长期和低概率事件信息的参与者比记住关于短期和高概率事件信息的参与者，将延迟或不确定性在心理上评估为更近，并且表现出更低程度的价值折扣。此外，与当下或现实的距离感介导了情境信息对价值折扣的影响。本文讨论了当前研究结果对理论和应用的启示。
