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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-12
pubmed:abstractText
When making decisions, individuals must often compensate for cognitive limitations, particularly in the face of advanced age. Recent findings suggest that age-related variability in striatal activity may increase financial risk-taking mistakes in older adults. In two studies, we sought to further characterize neural contributions to optimal financial risk taking and to determine whether decision aids could improve financial risk taking. In Study 1, neuroimaging analyses revealed that individuals whose mesolimbic activation correlated with the expected value estimates of a rational actor made more optimal financial decisions. In Study 2, presentation of expected value information improved decision making in both younger and older adults, but the addition of a distracting secondary task had little impact on decision quality. Remarkably, provision of expected value information improved the performance of older adults to match that of younger adults at baseline. These findings are consistent with the notion that mesolimbic circuits play a critical role in optimal choice, and imply that providing simplified information about expected value may improve financial risk taking across the adult life span.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1749-5024
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
207-17
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Aging, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Bias (Epidemiology), pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Brain Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Decision Making, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Individuality, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Life Expectancy, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Oxygen, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Risk-Taking, pubmed-meshheading:20501485-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Expected value information improves financial risk taking across the adult life span.
pubmed:affiliation
Jordan Hall, Building 420, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-2130, USA. glarkin@stanford.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article