The delay discounting perspective, which assumes an
alternative-wise processing of attribute information, has long
dominated research on intertemporal choice. Recent studies,
however, have suggested that intertemporal choice is based on
attribute-wise comparison. This line of research culminated in
the tradeoff model (Scholten & Read, 2010; Scholten, Read,
& Sanborn, 2014), which can accommodate most established
behavioral regularities in intertemporal choice. One drawback
of the tradeoff model, however, is that it is static, providing
no account of the dynamic process leading to a choice. Here
we develop a dynamic tradeoff model that can qualitatively
account for empirical findings in intertemporal choice
regarding not only choices but also response times. The
dynamic model also outperforms the original, static tradeoff
model when quantitatively fitting choices from representative
data sets, and even outperforms the best-performing dynamic
model derived from Decision Field Theory in Dai and
Busemeyer (2014) when fitting both choices and response
times.