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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Risky decision making"”.
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Risky Decision-Making Under Social Influence
Risky decision-making and social influence are associated with many health-risk behaviors. However, more work is necessary to understand risky decision-making and social influence. Additionally, to begin identifying ways to change individuals' engagement in health-risk behaviors, more work is …
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Neuroeconomic Predictors of Adolescent Risky Decision-Making
… deaths in the United States are due to risky behaviors such as reckless driving and risky sexual behavior (Kann et al., 2016). In order to better understand what drives adolescent risk-taking, the current studies utilized an interdisciplinary approach, which combined behavioral economic …
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Determinants of risky decision-making: What is peer influence?
Impulsive and risky decision-making have been linked to dangerous driving, substance use, gambling, overspending, and general delinquency. The aim of the series of studies presented in this thesis was to gain an understanding into contextual factors that influence decision-making, focusing on the …
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Risky Decision-making among Subgroups of Socially Anxious Individuals
… characteristic that may moderate an individual’s decision to engage in risky behavior. Research indicates that there are two distinct groups of socially anxious individuals, an avoidance-oriented, risk-averse group, and an approach-oriented, risk-taking group. Recent theoretical and empirical work …
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Strategic insight and age-related goal-neglect influence risky decision-making
… requires taking on some degree of risk, yet decision-makers often exhibit risk aversion: RA), rejecting risky prospects even when these may have higher expected value than safer alternatives. We investigated whether explicit strategy instruction and practice can decrease prepotent RA, and …
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The User's Dilemma and Risky Decision-Making on Electronic Bulletin Boards
… Reward Systems is used to explain users' decisions to disseminate or withhold information on an electronic bulletin board. Those facing the User's Dilemma were simultaneously confronted with a positive certain outcome and a negative probabilistic outcome; they chose to withhold information …
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Experiential and Neurobiological Influences on Economic Preferences and Risky Decision Making
Economic preferences are fundamental to risky decision making and other economic decision- making. Unlike traditional economics, which routinely assumes that individuals are endowed with stable preferences and try to maximize the expected utility when facing risky decision-making problems, …
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Risky decision-making in the Context of Contingency Management for Methamphetamine Use Disorder
Background: Risky decision-making is strongly implicated in adverse real-world risk-taking behaviour, and is associated with Substance Use Disorder, including Methamphetamine Use Disorder. Laboratory neurocognitive tasks typically utilized to assess risky decision-making have been able to …
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The Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Social and Non-social Risky Decision-Making
Decisions made under risk have been primarily studied within economic contexts (Platt & Huettel, 2008). This has led to the development of sound methods and models for studying risky choice behavior (Rangel, Camerer & Montague, 2008). In particular, these models are helpful for estimating how much …
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Age differences in risky decision making: the effects of explicitness, personality, and working memory
… materials, and personality differences on risky decision making while playing the Game of Dice Task (GDT). Participants were randomly assigned to one of two instruction conditions: Explicit vs. Standard. In the explicit condition, the instructions were very straightforward, with respect to …
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Self-Other Differences in Risky Decision Making: An Analysis of Social Values Theory and Construal-Level Theory
… study seeks to explain self-other differences in decision making pertaining to risk through the comparison of social value theory (Stone & Allgaier, 2008) and construal-level theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010). Research has demonstrated that in comparison to decisions for the self, individuals tend …
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Individuals With Amnesia are not Stuck in Time: Evidence From Risky Decision-Making, Intertemporal Choice, and Scaffolded Narratives
… 2, I use two behavioural economics tasks (a risky decision-making task and an intertemporal choice task) to examine whether amnesic cases judgment and decision-making reflects proneness to risky choices or steep disregard for the future. In Experiment 3, I examine the flexibility of amnesics …
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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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THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL VALUE ON ANXIETY AND SELF-OTHER DECISION MAKING
… social value within the domain of relationship decisions influences anxiety and decision making, and if this influence is different when deciding for oneself versus another person. Based on Social Values Theory, it was expected that increases in perceived social value between scenarios and …
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The Effect of Culture on Decision Making Behaviour in the Management of Risk Inherent In Unexpected Events Occurring During the Implementation of Construction Projects in the MENA
… plays significant roles in the risk related decision making behaviour of project managers in the construction industry, as decision making and the management of risks contributes largely to the reduction or elimination of trade-offs of time versus cost, or time and cost versus quality. The …
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Curiosity Killed the Cat: Investigating a Link between Curiosity and Risk-Taking Propensity
… disorders. This prompts 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 …
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Neural basis of multi-attribute economic value: examples from humans and monkeys
… which represents the benefit or detriment to the decision maker, is subjective and difficult to measure. For decades, economists have been trying to understand human subjective value functions. They used many different models to study human behaviour and economic decision-making. More recently, …
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