Neurocognitive underpinnings of cross-cultural differences in risky decision making.

ABSTRACT: Culture permeates across human mind and behavior. Cultural influence is reported even in economic decision making, which involves basic cognitive process, once believed to be invariant across all humans. The current study investigated the neurocognitive processes underlying economic decision making in East Asians and European Americans, with an aim to understand the cross-cultural differences in the discrete mental processes of decision making. Participants performed a risky gambling task that captures the gain maximizing and loss minimizing strategies, while electroencephalography was simultaneously collected. Event-related potentials (ERPs) associated with spontaneous emotional arousal (P2) and effortful attentional allocation (P3) were examined to determine the cultural effects on menta

SUBMITTER: Chen XJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7393311 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature