A cultural study on decision making: Performance differences on the iowa gambling task between selected groups of Brazilians and Americans

Psychology and Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bakos, Daniela Schneider ^a   Denburg, Natalie ^b   Fonseca, Rochele Paz ^c   Parente, Maria Alice de Mattos Pimenta ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE LUTERANA DO BRASIL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Culture; Decision making; Iowa gambling task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77954552812     PISSN: 19843054     EISSN: 19833288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3922/j.psns.2010.1.013     Document Type: Article

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