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Episodic future thinking reduces temporal discounting in healthy adolescents. / Bromberg, Uli; Lobatcheva, Maria; Peters, Jan.

In: PLOS ONE, Vol. 12, No. 11, 2017, p. e0188079.

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Bromberg, U, Lobatcheva, M & Peters, J 2017, 'Episodic future thinking reduces temporal discounting in healthy adolescents', PLOS ONE, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. e0188079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188079

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Bromberg, U., Lobatcheva, M., & Peters, J. (2017). Episodic future thinking reduces temporal discounting in healthy adolescents. PLOS ONE, 12(11), e0188079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188079

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Bromberg U, Lobatcheva M, Peters J. Episodic future thinking reduces temporal discounting in healthy adolescents. PLOS ONE. 2017;12(11):e0188079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188079

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