Translating Delay Discounting becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside supervision meetings, staff training, clinic systems, and performance review. In Translating Delay Discounting, for this course, the practical stakes show up in better performance, lower drift, and more sustainable team development, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Delay discounting is the decline in the value of temporally remote outcomes. Things that will happen in the future impact our decision making less than things that will happen immediately. This feature plays a role in therapeutic gains, healthy body weight, and academic performance, among other features. In this talk, I will explain delay discounting, why it is important, and how we measure it. I will also summarize empirical findings showing how personal and environmental variables affect delay discounting, and how we may change it to improve human well-being.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dr. Amy L. Odum received her Ph.D. from West Virginia University (WVU) in 1998. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Warren K. Bickel at the University of Vermont’s Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory and was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire before joining the faculty at Utah State University in 2003, where she now holds the position of professor of psychology. At WVU Dr. Odum collaborated with David W. Schaal on research concerned with the effects of drugs on timing. At Vermont, she applied her expertise in timing to the experimental analysis of delay discounting and its relation to addictions. Since then, she has made major contributions to our understanding of delay discounting, in particular its “state” and “trait” qualities. Dr. Odum’s other interests include matching to sample, resistance to change, and response variability. Her research has attracted substantial federal support, including grants from NIMH and NIDA. She has held key leadership positions in ABAI, the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (including two terms as president), and Division 25 of the American Psychological Association (including a term as president). Dr. Odum has been deeply involved in editorial work on behalf of numerous scientific journals, culminating in her appointment as editor of one of our field’s flagship publications, the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, in 2015. In this role she was known as striking just the right balance between high expectations for experimental rigor and freedom for authors to explore the theoretical and practical implications of their findings.
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