Can We Infer Inter-Individual Differences in Risk-Taking From Behavioral Tasks?

Autor: Palminteri, Stefano, Chevallier, Coralie
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Psychology; 11/21/2018, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 5p
Abstrakt: Investigating the bases of inter-individual differences in risk-taking is necessary to refine our cognitive and neural models of decision-making and to ultimately counter risky behaviors in real-life policy settings. However, recent evidence suggests that behavioral tasks fare poorly compared to standard questionnaires to measure individual differences in risk-taking. Crucially, using model-based measures of risk taking does not seem to improve reliability. Here, we put forward two possible – not mutually exclusive – explanations for these results and suggest future avenues of research to improve the assessment of inter-individual differences in risk-taking by combining repeated online testing and mechanistic computational models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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