Roland Benoit

Who they are

The work of Roland Benoit reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Imagining the Future Reduces Delay Discounting, Delay of Gratification.

Key papers

Benoit, R. G., Gilbert, S. J., & Burgess, P. W. (2011). A neural mechanism mediating the impact of episodic prospection on farsighted decisions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(18), 6771-6779. What it reports: Participants who imagined specific future spending events shifted their choices toward larger later rewards. Activity in the medial rostral prefrontal cortex predicted these farsighted choices and tracked the value of the imagined events.

Key ideas

Imagining the Future Reduces Delay Discounting: Vividly picturing specific future events makes people more willing to wait for a larger later reward.

Delay of Gratification: Choosing to wait for a larger later reward over a smaller immediate one.

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