articleJournal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionJan 1, 2009Closed access

Affective and deliberative processes in risky choice: Age differences in risk taking in the Columbia Card Task.

BFBernd FignerRMRachael MackinlayFWFriedrich WilkeningEUElke U. Weber

Columbia University · Decision Sciences (United States)

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Abstract

The authors investigated risk taking and underlying information use in 13- to 16- and 17- to 19-year-old adolescents and in adults in 4 experiments, using a novel dynamic risk-taking task, the Columbia Card Task (CCT). The authors investigated risk taking under differential involvement of affective versus deliberative processes with 2 versions of the CCT, constituting the most direct test of a dual-system explanation of adolescent risk taking in the literature so far. The "hot" CCT was designed to trigger more affective decision making, whereas the "cold" CCT was designed to trigger more deliberative decision making. Differential involvement of affective versus deliberative processes in the 2 CCT versions was…

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  • Psychology
  • Task (project management)
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Arousal
  • Developmental psychology
  • Dual (grammatical number)
  • Social psychology
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