Patrick A O'Connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 5759173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick A O'Connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick A |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Connor |
| SIGNATURE | CONNOR P A O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0936-0478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discounting past experience and the utility of memory
It has been argued that adult humans are absolutely time biased towards the future, at least as far as purely hedonic experiences (pain/pleasure) are concerned. What this means is that they assign zero value to them once they are in the past. Recent empirical studies have cast doubt on this claim, suggesting that while adults hold asymmetrical hedonic preferences – preferring painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to li…
Past-future preferences for hedonic goods and the utility of experiential memories
Recent studies have suggested that while both adults and children hold past-future hedonic preferences – preferring painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to lie in the future – these preferences are abandoned when the quantity of pain or pleasure under consideration is greater in the past than in the future. We examined whether such preferences might be affected by the utility people assign to experiential memories, si…
The effects of cueing episodic future thinking on delay discounting in children, adolescents, and adults
Math anxiety interferes with learning novel mathematics contents in early elementary school
Whereas some evidence exists that math anxiety may interfere with math performance from the very \nbeginning of primary school, no study to date has attempted to investigate whether math anxiety may also \ninterfere with early math learning (i.e., the encoding of new math knowledge) and not only with recalling \nalready mastered contents in test situations. Across 2 experiments carried out in 2 different countries \n(Study 1: N 115, conducted in …
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We investigated whether individual differences in future time perception and the detail with which future events are imagined are related to children’s delay of gratification. We administered a delay choice task (real rewards), a delay discounting task (hypothetical rewards), a novel future time perception measure, an episodic future thinking (EFT) interview and IQ measures to a sample of 7- to 11-year-olds (N = 132) drawn from a urban predominat…
The effect of episodic future thinking on young children’s future-oriented decision making
We investigated whether the developmental emergence of episodic future thinking (EFT) is associated with performance on a type of delay of gratification task: a delay choice task that involved choosing between a small reward now or a larger reward the next day. In Study 1, 4- to 5-year-olds' (N = 99) EFT as measured by a tool saving task was significantly associated with performance on the delay choice task, but this was not the case for other EF…
Quit outcomes among clients ineligible for cessation medication through the state quitline
In adjusted models, medication use did not significantly differ by mode of entry in this population of Medicaid beneficiaries. Psychosocial factors such as intention to quit in the next 30 days, social support for quitting, education level, race, and ethnicity impacted quit status and differed by mode of entry. Quitlines should use tailored strategies to increase engagement and reduce barriers among proactively referred clients
Does subliminal priming of free response choices depend on task set or automatic response activation
Effects of Incongruence Between the Perceived Self and the Ideal Self on Emotional Stability of Stripteasers
Self-evaluations are made with reference to the perceived self and the ideal self. In the present research, an attempt was made to determine the extent to which low or high selfdiscrepancy between the perceived self and ideal self of stripteasers affected their emotional stability. It examined the possibility of low or high levels of emotional stability based on the degree of the discrepancy. Results indicated the emotional stability variables an…
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Effects of Incongruence Between the Perceived Self and the Ideal Self on Emotional Stability of Stripteasers
Self-evaluations are made with reference to the perceived self and the ideal self. In the present research, an attempt was made to determine the extent to which low or high selfdiscrepancy between the perceived self and ideal self of stripteasers affected their emotional stability. It examined the possibility of low or high levels of emotional stability based on the degree of the discrepancy. Results indicated the emotional stability variables an…
Does subliminal priming of free response choices depend on task set or automatic response activation
Quit outcomes among clients ineligible for cessation medication through the state quitline
In adjusted models, medication use did not significantly differ by mode of entry in this population of Medicaid beneficiaries. Psychosocial factors such as intention to quit in the next 30 days, social support for quitting, education level, race, and ethnicity impacted quit status and differed by mode of entry. Quitlines should use tailored strategies to increase engagement and reduce barriers among proactively referred clients
Math anxiety interferes with learning novel mathematics contents in early elementary school
Whereas some evidence exists that math anxiety may interfere with math performance from the very \nbeginning of primary school, no study to date has attempted to investigate whether math anxiety may also \ninterfere with early math learning (i.e., the encoding of new math knowledge) and not only with recalling \nalready mastered contents in test situations. Across 2 experiments carried out in 2 different countries \n(Study 1: N 115, conducted in …
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We investigated whether individual differences in future time perception and the detail with which future events are imagined are related to children’s delay of gratification. We administered a delay choice task (real rewards), a delay discounting task (hypothetical rewards), a novel future time perception measure, an episodic future thinking (EFT) interview and IQ measures to a sample of 7- to 11-year-olds (N = 132) drawn from a urban predominat…
The effect of episodic future thinking on young children’s future-oriented decision making
We investigated whether the developmental emergence of episodic future thinking (EFT) is associated with performance on a type of delay of gratification task: a delay choice task that involved choosing between a small reward now or a larger reward the next day. In Study 1, 4- to 5-year-olds' (N = 99) EFT as measured by a tool saving task was significantly associated with performance on the delay choice task, but this was not the case for other EF…
Past-future preferences for hedonic goods and the utility of experiential memories
Recent studies have suggested that while both adults and children hold past-future hedonic preferences – preferring painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to lie in the future – these preferences are abandoned when the quantity of pain or pleasure under consideration is greater in the past than in the future. We examined whether such preferences might be affected by the utility people assign to experiential memories, si…
The effects of cueing episodic future thinking on delay discounting in children, adolescents, and adults
Discounting past experience and the utility of memory
It has been argued that adult humans are absolutely time biased towards the future, at least as far as purely hedonic experiences (pain/pleasure) are concerned. What this means is that they assign zero value to them once they are in the past. Recent empirical studies have cast doubt on this claim, suggesting that while adults hold asymmetrical hedonic preferences – preferring painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to li…
Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Delay of gratification (3 works) · Discounting (3 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 works) · Delay discounting (2 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (2 works)