Individual differences in skewed financial risk-taking across the adult life span.

Older adults are disproportionately targeted by fraud schemes that advertise unlikely but large returns (positively skewed risks). We examined adult age differences in choice and neural activity as individuals considered risky gambles. Gambles were symmetric (50% chance of modest win or loss), posit...

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Published in:Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 1232 - 1242
Main Authors: Seaman, Kendra, Leong, Josiah, Wu, Charlene, Knutson, Brian, Samanez-Larkin, Gregory
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2017
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