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| Title |
From Risk-Seeking to Risk-Averse: The Development of Economic Risk Preference from Childhood to Adulthood
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00313 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David J. Paulsen, Michael L. Platt, Scott A. Huettel, Elizabeth M. Brannon |
| Abstract |
Adolescence is often described as a period of heightened risk-taking. Adolescents are notorious for impulsivity, emotional volatility, and risky behaviors such as drinking and driving under the influence of alcohol. By contrast, we found that risk-taking declines linearly from childhood to adulthood when individuals make choices over monetary gambles. Further, with age we found increases in the sensitivity to economic risk, defined as the degree to which a preference for assured monetary gains over a risky payoff depends upon the variability in the risky payoff. These findings indicate that decisions about economic risk may follow a different developmental trajectory than other kinds of risk-taking, and that changes in sensitivity to risk may be a major factor in the development of mature risk aversion. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 29% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 12% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 4 | 24% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 94% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 183 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 173 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 23% |
| Researcher | 23 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 30 | 16% |
| Unknown | 43 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 59 | 32% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 13 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 10 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 38 | 21% |
| Unknown | 44 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 04 January 2022.
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#16,572
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#78
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