SynthesisPloS one2019
Do our risk preferences change when we make decisions for others? A meta-analysis of self-other differences in decisions involving risk.
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- Risk-Adapted Breast Screening for Women at Low Predicted Risk of Breast Cancer: An Online Discrete Choice Experiment.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2024Article
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- Self-interest, positional concerns and distributional considerations in healthcare preferences.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024Article
- Trade-Offs between Vaccine Effectiveness and Vaccine Safety: Personal versus Policy Decisions.PharmacoEconomics - open · 2023Article
- Uncertainty in healthcare and health decision making: Five methodological and conceptual research recommendations from an interdisciplinary team.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Review
- Free Online Decision Tools to Support Parents Making Decisions About Their Children's Chronic Health Condition: An Environmental Scan.Academic pediatrics · 2023Review
- Role of Parents' Perceived Risk and Responsibility in Deciding on Children's COVID-19 Vaccination.Pediatrics · 2023Article
- Self-Other(s) Risk Decision Differences in Different Domains in the Chinese Context: A Social Value Theory Perspective.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- The influence of social comparison on risk decision-making for self and groups in intergroup contexts.Australian journal of psychology · 2023Article
- Choosing for others changes dissociable computational mechanisms underpinning risky decision-making.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Delay discounting rate by a surrogate decision maker depends on the smoking status of the recipient.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- When Implicit Prosociality Trumps Selfishness: The Neural Valuation System Underpins More Optimal Choices When Learning to Avoid Harm to Others Than to Oneself.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- A mixed methods investigation of end-of-life surrogate decisions among older adults.BMC palliative care · 2020Article
- Pediatric Caregiver Version of the Shared Decision Making Process Scale: Validity and Reliability for ADHD Treatment Decisions.Academic pediatricsArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAre we more risk-averse or risk-seeking when we make decisions on behalf of other people as opposed to ourselves? So far, findings have not been able to provide a clear and consistent answer.
methodWe propose a meta-analysis to assess whether self-other differences vary according to particular features of the decision. We reviewed 78 effect sizes from 49 studies (7,576 participants).
resultsThere was no overall self-other difference, but there were moderating effects of domain and frame. Decisions in the interpersonal domain were more risk-averse for self than for other. Decisions in the medical domain were more risk-seeking for self than for other. There were no overall self-other differences in the financial domain, however there was a moderating effect of frame: decisions in a gain frame were more risk-averse for self than other whereas decisions in a loss frame were more risk-seeking for self than other. This effect of frame was slightly different overall and in the medical domain, where self-other differences occurred in a loss frame but not in a gain frame.
conclusionFuture work should continue to investigate how the specific content and context of the decision impacts self-other differences in order to understand the effects of domain and frame we report.
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