Citation

Palminteri S, Chevallier C. Front. Psychol. 2018; 9: e2307.

Affiliation

Institut d'Etudes de la Cognition, Université de Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Frontiers Research Foundation)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02307

PMID

30519209

PMCID

PMC6260002

Abstract

Investigating the bases of inter-individual differences in risk-taking is necessary to refine our cognitive and neural models of decision-making and to ultimately counter risky behaviors in real-life policy settings. However, recent evidence suggests that behavioral tasks fare poorly compared to standard questionnaires to measure individual differences in risk-taking. Crucially, using model-based measures of risk taking does not seem to improve reliability. Here, we put forward two possible - not mutually exclusive - explanations for these results and suggest future avenues of research to improve the assessment of inter-individual differences in risk-taking by combining repeated online testing and mechanistic computational models.

Language: en

Keywords

behavioral economics; behavioral phenotype; correlational psychology; inter-individual variability; risk-taking