Decision Neuroscience: Why We Become More Cautious with Age

Peter Bossaerts; Carsten Murawski

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.061

Decision Neuroscience: Why We Become More Cautious with Age

Curr Biol. 2016 Jun 20;26(12):R495-R497. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.061.

Authors

Peter Bossaerts¹, Carsten Murawski²

Affiliations

¹ Brain, Mind and Markets Laboratory, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Electronic address: peter.bossaerts@unimelb.edu.au.
² Brain, Mind and Markets Laboratory, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Electronic address: carstenm@unimelb.edu.au.

PMID: 27326709
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.061

Abstract

A recent study suggests that risk-taking decreases with age and that this may be related to dopamine-modulated changes in Pavlovian approach behavior, and not a reduction in the subjective value of incremental rewards as traditional models from economics and psychology would have claimed.

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MeSH terms

Decision Making*
Dopamine
Humans
Reward*
Risk-Taking

Substances

Dopamine