Decision Neuroscience: Why We Become More Cautious with Age.
A recent study suggests that risk-taking decreases with age and that this may be related to dopamine-modulated changes in Pavlovian approach behavior, and not a reduction in the subjective value of incremental rewards as traditional models from economics and psychology would have claimed.
Brain, Mind and Markets Laboratory, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Electronic address: peter.bossaerts@unimelb.edu.au.
Peter
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Bossaerts
Brain, Mind and Markets Laboratory, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Electronic address: carstenm@unimelb.edu.au.
Carsten
C
Murawski
D003657:Decision Making; D004298:Dopamine; D006801:Humans; D012201:Reward; D012309:Risk-Taking
D004298:Dopamine