The Role of Emotional vs. Cognitive Intelligence in Economic Decision-Making Amongst Older Adults.

ABSTRACT: The links between emotions, bio-regulatory processes, and economic decision-making are well-established in the context of age-related changes in fluid, real-time, decision competency. The objective of the research reported here is to assess the relative contributions, interactions, and impacts of affective and cognitive intelligence in economic, value-based decision-making amongst older adults. Additionally, we explored this decision-making competency in the context of the neurobiology of aging by examining the neuroanatomical correlates of intelligence and decision-making in an aging cohort. Thirty-nine, healthy, community dwelling older adults were administered the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), an ecologically valid laboratory measure of complex, economic decision-making; along with standard

SUBMITTER: Ramchandran K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7274021 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature