ReviewCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2023
Aging, uncertainty, and decision making-A review.
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- Cognitive and Emotional Predictors of Decision-Making in Adults: Roles of Cognitive Functions and Emotion Regulation Difficulties.Europe's journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Event-related potentials reveal age-related differences in sensitivity to positive and negative feedback from social and nonsocial sources.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Exploring the mechanisms of social jet lag in risk decision-making with machine learning models.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Age differences in spatial navigation stem from a preference for familiar routes rather than impaired landmark-dependent strategies.Psychology and aging · 2025Article
- Interrelationships among age, time horizons, and uncertainty: emotional experiences and workplace learning.Work, aging and retirement · 2025Article
- Heuristic pruning of decision trees at low probabilities and probability discounting in sequential planning in young and older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Overconfidence and Financial Risk Tolerance in Older Age.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- The Impact of Episodic Memory on Decision-Making in Aging: Scenarios from Everyday Life Situations.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- A scoping review of the impact of ageing on individual consumers' insurance purchase intentions.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Influence of age and cognitive demand on motor decision making under uncertainty: a study on goal directed reaching movements.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dorsal and ventral fronto-amygdala networks underlie risky decision-making in age-related cognitive decline.GeroScience · 2024Article
- Risk-Taking Behavior Differs Between Older Adults with and without Mild Cognitive Impairment.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Article
- Accuracy of Expected Symptoms and Subsequent Quality of Life Measures Among Adults With COPD.JAMA network open · 2023Article
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Abstract
There is a great deal of uncertainty in the world. One common source of uncertainty results from incomplete or missing information about probabilistic outcomes (i.e., outcomes that may occur), which influences how people make decisions. The impact of this type of uncertainty may particularly pronounced for older adults, who, as the primary leaders around the world, make highly impactful decisions with lasting outcomes. This review examines the ways in which uncertainty about probabilistic outcomes is perceived, handled, and represented in the aging brain, with an emphasis on how uncertainty may specifically affect decision making in later life. We describe the role of uncertainty in decision making and aging from four perspectives, including 1) theoretical, 2) self-report, 3) behavioral, and 4) neuroscientific. We report evidence of any age-related differences in uncertainty among these contexts and describe how these changes may affect decision making. We then integrate the findings across the distinct perspectives, followed by a discussion of important future directions for research on aging and uncertainty, including prospection, domain-specificity in risk-taking behaviors, and choice overload.
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