economics

Preferring smaller, sooner rewards over larger, later ones.

Money illusion is the tendency to think in terms of nominal currency values rather than real purchasing power adjusted for inflation.

Ambiguity aversion is the tendency to prefer known risks over unknown or poorly defined risks, even when the expected outcomes are similar.

Zero-sum bias is a cognitive bias towards thinking that a situation is a zero-sum game, where one person's gain would be another's loss.

Temporal discounting (or hyperbolic discounting) is the tendency for people to have a stronger preference for more immediate payoffs relative to later payoffs.