Stability of choices in a risky decision-making task: A 3-year longitudinal study with children and adults

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-252

  Levin, Irwin P ^a,c   Hart, Stephanie S ^b,d   Weller, Joshua A ^a,c   Harshman, Lyndsay A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children vs. adults; Risky decision making; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547548865     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.552     Document Type: Article

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