Anticipation and Choice Heuristics in the Dynamic Consumption of Pain Relief
Figure 6
Relationships between one-off (binary) and dynamic intertemporal choices.
The frequency of choosing sooner pain in the binary intertemporal choice experiment which provides a summary behavioral measure of dread, in both pain (i) and relief (ii) frames (see main text), is plotted against: A the slope of the spending profile in the dynamic consumption task (positive slope indicates saving relief) and B the absolute slope of the spending profile (a measure of deviation from even spreading of relief). Solid lines indicate a linear least-squares fit through the data. There are no significant relationships between the behavioral metrics on the two tasks.