Information use in risky decision making: Do age differences depend on affective context?

ABSTRACT: The current study focused on the degree to which decision context (deliberative vs. affective) differentially impacted the use of available information about uncertainty (i.e., probability, positive and negative outcome magnitudes, expected value, and variance/risk) when older adults were faced with decisions under risk. In addition, we examined whether individual differences in general mental ability and executive function moderated the associations between age and information use. Participants (N = 96) completed a neuropsychological assessment and the hot (affective) and cold (deliberative) versions of an explicit risk task. Our results did not find a significant Age × Hot/Cold Condition interaction on overall risk-taking. However, we found that older adults were less likely to use the f

SUBMITTER: Weller JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473493 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature