Risk-taking and impulsive behaviors: A comparative assessment of three tasks

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 477-486

  Xu, Sihua ^a,b   Korczykowski, Marc ^c   Zhu, Senhua ^a,c   Rao, Hengyi ^a,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS STUDIES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloon Analogue Risk Task; Decision making; Delay Discounting Task; Impulsivity; Iowa Gambling Task; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878027487     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2013.41.3.477     Document Type: Article

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