In recent years, regulatory focus theory has been gradually combined with various areas of
decision making, becoming a new research trend and has made great achievements in the fields of risk
decision making, moral decision making, delayed decision making and so on. However, there are few
researches on intertemporal decision making and few scholars discuss the relationship between regulatory
focus and intertemporal decision making. Based on the previous researches, we explores the relationship
between regulatory focus and intertemporal decision making, and prospects the future applications of
regulatory focus in intertemporal decision making.