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Does speech rate influence intertemporal decisions? an experimental investigation
Josie I Chen1, Tai-Sen He2, Hsin-Ya Liao1
1Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
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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