Does speech rate influence intertemporal decisions? An experimental investigation

• Main Authors: Chen, Josie I., He, Tai-Sen, Liao, Hsin-Ya
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::General; Speech Rate; Intertemporal Decision; Laboratory Experiment
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159737
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...