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- Title
The Brain on Risk.
- Abstract
The article reports on the first neuroscience research conducted by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) psychologists, which compares how brains evaluate the possibility of gaining versus losing when making risky decisions. Study coauthor Russell Poldrack said they can predict how risk-averse one is going to be in his/her choices by looking at how one's brain responds to potential gains versus potential losses. Coauthor Craig Fox also said that individual differences in brain activity correspond very closely to individual differences in participants' actual choices.
- Subjects
BRAIN research; DECISION making; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOLOGISTS; POLDRACK, Russell; FOX, Craig; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Science & Children, 2008, Vol 45, Issue 6, p11
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article