Decision Neuroscience: Why We Become More Cautious with Age.

Curr Biol

Brain, Mind and Markets Laboratory, Department of Finance, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Electronic address:

Published: June 2016

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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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.061DOI Listing

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