The Tower Building Task: A Behavioral Tool to Evaluate Recreational Risk-Taking.

ABSTRACT: Risk-taking is a fundamental aspect of life spanning diverse contexts. Despite many tests being readily available, the behavioral assessment of risk propensity in recreational contexts, where decisions are not necessarily motivated by monetary gains or losses, is not well represented. As the tower building task (TBT) shares features of recreational activities, we evaluated whether it could assess risk-taking in this type of scenario. In the TBT, participants use standard-size wooden blocks to build the tallest tower they can within a 10 min period. In the current study we (i) examined methodological modifications to the task to either promote or reduce risky behavior and (ii) tested possible associations between the TBT scores and those of two commonly used risk-taking evaluations: The Bal

SUBMITTER: Gracia-Garrido S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9495860 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature