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Approach-avoidance orientations can predict young children's decision-making
Avi Benozio1, Reshit Cohenian1, Robert Hepach2
1Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Plos One
|July 24, 2023
Summary
Children
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Behavioral Economics
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Individual differences in risk and reward perception influence decision-making.
- Understanding these differences in early childhood is crucial for developmental insights.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between reward-seeking and risk-avoiding tendencies in young children.
- To predict children's behavior in various decision-making scenarios using novel pictorial assessments.
Main Methods:
- Utilized a set of original pictorial scenarios to assess individual differences in reward-risk tendencies.
- Evaluated 99 children (aged 3–8 years) in three distinct decision-making tasks, including dictator-game variations and a prize-preference task.
Main Results:
- Children's reward-risk tendencies did not predict sharing behavior in a dictator game.
- These tendencies significantly predicted monopolizing behavior in a dictator game and choices between risky versus safe rewards.
Conclusions:
- Novel pictorial scenarios effectively assess individual differences in children's decision-making.
- Findings reveal early behavioral patterns linking reward-risk tendencies to specific economic and prize-choice behaviors.
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