Authors
Kristen R Hamilton, Marci R Mitchell, Victoria C Wing, Iris M Balodis, Warren K Bickel, Mark Fillmore, Scott D Lane, Carl W Lejuez, Andrew K Littlefield, Maartje Luijten, Charles W Mathias, Suzanne H Mitchell, T Celeste Napier, Brady Reynolds, Christian G Schütz, Barry Setlow, Kenneth J Sher, Alan C Swann, Stephanie E Tedford, Melanie J White, Catharine A Winstanley, Richard Yi, Marc N Potenza, F Gerard Moeller
Publication date
2015/4
Source
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Volume
6
Issue
2
Pages
182
Publisher
Educational Publishing Foundation
Description
Impulsivity critically relates to many psychiatric disorders. Given the multifaceted construct that impulsivity represents, defining core aspects of impulsivity is vital for the assessment and understanding of clinical conditions. Choice impulsivity (CI), involving the preferential selection of smaller sooner rewards over larger later rewards, represents one important type of impulsivity. The International Society for Research on Impulsivity (InSRI) convened to discuss the definition and assessment of CI and provide recommendations regarding measurement across species. Commonly used preclinical and clinical CI behavioral tasks are described, and considerations for each task are provided to guide CI task selection. Differences in assessment of CI (self-report, behavioral) and calculating CI indices (eg, area-under-the-curve, indifference point, and steepness of discounting curve) are discussed along with properties of …
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