Future Self-Continuity in High-Immersive Virtual Environments (Hive)

We analyzed experimentally the effect of inducing future self-continuity in a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment on delaying immediate monetary gratification. Our experiment is conducted in high-immersive virtual environments (HIVE) to stress the effect of environmental cues on behavior. We found that these stimuli increased the choice of a larger delayed option, by making future gratification more desirable and reducing the impact of present bias on future reward. Our experiment supports the usefulness of virtual environments for testing and explaining intertemporal choice