Table 2.

Two Examples of Possible Decision Paths and Outcomes in the Effort-Discounting Task

		Example 1		Example 2
Step	Option A: Difficult Task	Option B: Easy task	Choice	Option B: Easy task	Choice
1	$3.00	$1.50	A	$1.50	B
2	$3.00	$2.25	A	$0.75	B
3	$3.00	$2.63	B	$0.38	A
4	$3.00	$2.44	B	$0.57	A
5	$3.00	$2.35	A	$0.66	A
6	$3.00	$2.40	B	$0.71	A
Point of indifference		$2.38		$0.74
subjective value		0.79		0.25

Note: Value of the difficult option is always the same. Thus, in each example, Option B is being compared with the unchanging Option A. Choice indicates the option chosen, with the options on the next line resulting from this choice. As indicated in the text, subjective value was calculated by dividing the point of indifference by $3.