Development of an Automatic Response Mode to Improve the Clinical Utility of Sequential Risk-Taking Tasks

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 555-564

  Pleskac, Timothy J ^a   Wallsten, Thomas S ^b   Wang, Paula ^b   Lejuez, C W ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

BART; missing data; risk taking; sequential choice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BALLOON ANALOG RISK TASK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

AUTOMATION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57949107455     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014245     Document Type: Article

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