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| Title |
Children do not exhibit ambiguity aversion despite intact familiarity bias
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01519 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Rosa Li, Elizabeth M. Brannon, Scott A. Huettel |
| Abstract |
The phenomenon of ambiguity aversion, in which risky gambles with known probabilities are preferred over ambiguous gambles with unknown probabilities, has been thoroughly documented in adults but never measured in children. Here, we use two distinct tasks to investigate ambiguity preferences of children (8- to 9-year-olds) and a comparison group of adults (19- to 27-year-olds). Across three separate measures, we found evidence for significant ambiguity aversion in adults but not in children and for greater ambiguity aversion in adults compared to children. As ambiguity aversion in adults has been theorized to result from a preference to bet on the known and avoid the unfamiliar, we separately measured familiarity bias and found that children, like adults, are biased towards the familiar. Our findings indicate that ambiguity aversion emerges across the course of development between childhood and adolescence, while a familiarity bias is already present in childhood. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 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 | 4 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Colombia | 1 | 6% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 14 | 88% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 6% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 49 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 46 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 35% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 16% |
| Researcher | 5 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 8 | 16% |
| Unknown | 7 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 24 | 49% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 8% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 12% |
| Unknown | 9 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 13 July 2018.
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