Time discounting can make delayed outcomes carry less weight than more immediate outcomes.

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Frederick, Loewenstein, and O’Donoghue review intertemporal choice: decisions involving costs and benefits that occur at different times. Their review examines discounting, variation in measured discount rates, and alternative models developed to explain patterns that the standard discounted-utility model does not capture.

This source does not show that immediate relief always wins, that every intertemporal choice is present-biased, or that pressure is the cause of short-term choices in everyday life.

The book uses time-discounting research to interpret why delayed costs can lose salience relative to immediate relief. The pressure-specific Human OS interpretation goes beyond the narrower relationship verified here.

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