SynthesisAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2011
Age differences in risky choice: a meta-analysis.
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153 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Common and distinct brain activity associated with risky and ambiguous decision-making.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Pooled it
- Neuropsychological Interventions for Decision-Making in Addiction: a Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Age differences in the effect of framing on risky choice: A meta-analysis.Psychology and aging · 2015Pooled it
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- Like cognitive function, decision making across the life span shows profound age-related changes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Trial
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- Overperceiving desire, underestimating age: a review of a narrow research lens.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Age, income, and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Attenuated neural activity in processing decision-making feedback in uncertain conditions in patients with mild cognitive impairment.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- Higher alcohol use is associated with subsequent increased risk seeking toward gains: A longitudinal cohort study in young men.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- The roles of ability emotional intelligence in predicting affective decision-making.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Overconfidence and Financial Risk Tolerance in Older Age.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- High patient acceptance of immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS) as part of a one-stop see-and-treat pathway within an innovative NHS cataract unit.Eye (London, England) · 2025Observational
- Neural correlates of reduced sensitivity to information about uncertainty during valuation in older adults: An fNIRS study.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Healthy aging in rats is associated with a decline in the ability to inhibit maladaptive responses, but not in measures of self-control by delayed gratification.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Impact of Episodic Memory on Decision-Making in Aging: Scenarios from Everyday Life Situations.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Does risk taking change as a function of age? We conducted a systematic literature search and found 29 comparisons between younger and older adults on behavioral tasks thought to measure risk taking (N= 4,093). The reports relied on various tasks differing in several respects, such as the amount of learning required or the choice framing (gains vs. losses). The results suggest that age-related differences vary considerably as a function of task characteristics, in particular the learning requirements of the task. In decisions from experience, age-related differences in risk taking were a function of decreased learning performance: older adults were more risk seeking compared to younger adults when learning led to risk-avoidant behavior, but were more risk averse when learning led to risk-seeking behavior. In decisions from description, younger adults and older adults showed similar risk-taking behavior for the majority of the tasks, and there were no clear age-related differences as a function of gain/loss framing. We discuss limitations and strengths of past research and provide suggestions for future work on age-related differences in risk taking.
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