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emic-and-etic comments on Book Review: Kazdin's The Everyday Parenting Toolkit - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 31 March 2014 09:29PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 June 2014 08:36:37AM -1 points [-]

Better yet, encourage them to implement their own mental token economy:

''changing cognitive representations of rewards (e.g. making long term rewards seem more concrete) and/or creating situations of “pre-commitment” (eliminating the option of changing one’s mind later) can reduce the preference for immediate reward seen in delay discounting.[146]''