TY - JOUR
AB - often demonstrate elevated rates of risk behav- gets reward is (1 + n)/(1 + np), whereas n is Making decisions often implies choosing iors compared to non-maltreated peers. How- the number of samples and p is the proba- between options differing in level of risk and ever, less is known about their underlying deci- bility of receiving reward. We formulize the degree of positive and negative consequences. sion processes. In the current study, we extend probability weighting function of the expected Choosing advantageously in such situations is work (Weller et al., 2015) which showed diver- value model for hyperbolic time discounting as relevant for everyday outcomes in a variety of gent patterns of decision-making on an exper- w(p) = (1/(1 + k log ((1 + n)/(1 + np))). More- contexts. A broad field of research uses labora- imental risky decision-making task between over, the probability weighting function is tory gambling tasks to emulate risky decision maltreated and nonmlatreated peers. Specifi- derived from the generalized hyperbolic time situations (e.g., Iowa Gambling Task, Cups cally, we tested the degree to which risk-taking discounting model as w(p) = w(p) = (1 + k Task, Game of Dice Task). Different cognitive to achieve 
TI - Decision Making
JO - International Journal of Psychology
DO - 10.1002/ijop.12307
DA - 2016-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/decision-making-npds1qL08e
SP - 335
EP - 355
VL - 51
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DP - DeepDyve
ER -