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| Title |
Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnins.2012.00111 |
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| Authors |
James F. Cavanagh, David Neville, Michael X Cohen, Irene Van de Vijver, Helga Harsay, Poppy Watson, Jessika I. Buitenweg, K. Richard Ridderinkhof |
| Abstract |
Increasing age is associated with subtle but meaningful changes in decision-making. It is unknown, however, to what degree these psychological changes are reflective of age-related changes in decision quality. Here, we investigated the effect of age on latent cognitive processes associated with risky decision-making on the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART). In the BART, participants repetitively inflate a balloon in order to increase potential reward. At any point, participants can decide to cash-out to harvest the reward, or they can continue, risking a balloon pop that erases all earnings. We found that among seniors, increasing age was associated with greater reward-related risk taking when the balloon has a higher probability of popping (i.e., a "high risk" condition). Cognitive modeling results from hierarchical Bayesian estimation suggested that performance differences were due to increased reward sensitivity in high risk conditions in seniors. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 83 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 77 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 21 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 14% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 4 | 5% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 11% |
| Unknown | 16 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 33 | 40% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 5% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 9 | 11% |
| Unknown | 23 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2012.
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#93
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