ArticlePersonality and individual differences2013
Not all risk taking behavior is bad: Associative sensitivity predicts learning during risk taking among high sensation seekers.
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- Predictors of Positive and Negative Risk-Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Similarities and Differences.Europe's journal of psychology · 2021Article
- Reward Responsiveness, Optimism, and Social and Mental Functioning in Children Aged 6-7: Protocol of a Cross-Sectional Pilot Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Apples to apples? Neural correlates of emotion regulation differences between high- and low-risk adolescents.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Novel insights from the Yellow Light Game: Safe and risky decisions differentially impact adolescent outcome-related brain function.NeuroImage · 2018Article
- Neural substrates of the influence of emotional cues on cognitive control in risk-taking adolescents.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2018Article
- Risky decision-making in children with and without ADHD: A prospective study.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2018Article
- The Role of Executive Function in Adolescent Adaptive Risk-Taking on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task.Developmental neuropsychology · 2018Article
- Early-onset Conduct Problems: Predictions from daring temperament and risk taking behavior.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2017Article
- But is helping you worth the risk? Defining Prosocial Risk Taking in adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2017Review
- Greater response variability in adolescents is associated with increased white matter development.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Article
- Adaptive Adolescent Flexibility: Neurodevelopment of Decision-making and Learning in a Risky Context.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Risk taking behavior can be both adaptive and maladaptive depending on context. The majority of studies of risk taking, however, focus on clinical populations and dangerous or harmful risk taking. Individual differences in learning during risk taking are rarely examined in relation to task performance. The present study examined risk taking and associated outcomes in an exploration-based instrumental learning task (Balloon Emotional Learning Task; BELT), which presented a series of balloons in which participants pump up for points. Consistent with prior work, sensation seeking predicted increased risk taking behavior. Importantly, however, a significant interaction between sensation seeking and associative sensitivity, an attentional construct defined as the frequency and remoteness of automatic cognitive activity, was found. Specifically, among individuals high in sensation seeking, associative sensitivity predicted fewer balloon explosions and an increase in points earned on the balloon condition with the most potential feedback driven learning. Thus, these findings suggest that sensation seekers are a heterogeneous group, and secondary traits such as associative sensitivity moderate behavior such as risk taking and learning according to context.
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