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. 2022 Feb 25;17(2):e0264356.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264356. eCollection 2022.

Does speech rate influence intertemporal decisions? an experimental investigation

Josie I Chen  1 , Tai-Sen He  2 , Hsin-Ya Liao  1
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Does speech rate influence intertemporal decisions? an experimental investigation

Josie I Chen et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

This paper experimentally examines the effect of speech rate on intertemporal decisions. In a delay-discounting task, subjects made a series of intertemporal choices between smaller-sooner and larger-delayed rewards and were asked to listen to a voice recording verbalizing the information for payoff options. We manipulated the speech rate of the voice recordings and administered two treatment conditions: Slow and Fast. We did not find an overall treatment effect in the acoustic manipulation.

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