Young children's affective decision-making in a gambling task: Does difficulty in learning the gain/loss schedule matter?

Cognitive Development

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-191

  Gao, Shan ^a,b,c   Wei, Yonggang ^d   Bai, Junjie ^e   Lin, Chongde ^f   Li, Hong ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CHONGQING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Affective decision making (ADM); Children's Gambling Task (CGT); Gain loss schedule; Loss frequency and magnitude

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649312260     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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