Journal article
Stability of choices in a risky decision‐making task: a 3‐year longitudinal study with children and adults
Journal of behavioral decision making, Vol.20(3), pp.241-252
07/2007
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.552
Abstract
In a 3‐year follow‐up to Levin and Hart's (2003) study, we observed the same children, now 9–11 years old, and their parents in the same risky decision‐making task. At the aggregate level the same pattern of means was observed across time periods. At the individual level the key variables were significantly correlated across time periods for both children and adults. Taken together with the results from the original study and earlier studies, these results solidify the following conclusions: children utilize both probability and outcome information in risky decision‐making; the tendency to make more risky choices to avoid a loss than to achieve a gain of equal magnitude, which is a major tenet of the leading theories of risky decision‐making, occurs for children as well as adults; children make more risky choices than adults; temperamental predictors of risky choice are valid for children as well as for adults. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Stability of choices in a risky decision‐making task: a 3‐year longitudinal study with children and adults
- Creators
- Irwin P LevinStephanie S HartJoshua A WellerLyndsay A Harshman
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of behavioral decision making, Vol.20(3), pp.241-252
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Chichester, UK
- DOI
- 10.1002/bdm.552
- ISSN
- 0894-3257
- eISSN
- 1099-0771
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- NSF (SES 02‐17620)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2007
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Marketing; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation
- Record Identifier
- 9984065478602771
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