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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Balloon Analogue Risk Task"”.
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Curiosity Killed the Cat: Investigating a Link between Curiosity and Risk-Taking Propensity
… a connection with decision-making, specifically risky decision-making, perhaps with curiosity as a motivating force. In Experiment 1, college students were primed with curiosity, then participated in a lab-based behavioral measure of risk-taking, the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, and answered …
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Individual Differences in the Dopaminergic Reward System: The Effect of Genetic Risk on Neural Reward Sensitivity and Risky Choice
… consequences, which can lead one to make risky choices. Rewards are processed in the mesolimbic dopamine reward system, and this system is in part modulated by genetic polymorphisms that are associated with dopamine transmission. The current study tested if genetic polymorphisms that are …
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Sex Differences in Risky Decision-Making Neural Processing and Its Link to Problematic Substance Use in Adolescents at Risk for Substance Use Disorders
Background: Risky decision-making deficits are associated with substance use risk. However, sex differences in risky decision-making neural processing among adolescents with externalizing disorders (EXT), like ADHD and conduct disorder, have been understudied though EXT youth are at high risk for …
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Risk taking in bipolar disorder
… with poorer performance on computerised tasks designed to measure risk decision making. There is tentative evidence for altered decision making processes even during euthymic and remitted phases of bipolar disorder, but little difference in overall decision making outcomes.Limitations: …