Individual Differences in Risky Decision Making: A Meta-analysis of Sensation Seeking and Impulsivity with the Balloon Analogue Risk Task

• Published in: Journal of behavioral decision making Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 20 - 36
• Main Authors: Lauriola, Marco, Panno, Angelo, Levin, Irwin P., Lejuez, Carl W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2014; Wiley Periodicals Inc
• Subjects: Adolescents; Balloon Analogue Risk Task; Behavioral sciences; Decision making; Demographic change; Impulsivity; individual differences; Meta-analysis; Personality; Personality psychology; Personality traits; Risk; risky decision making; sensation seeking; Studies; Systematic review

SUMMARY To represent the state‐of‐the‐art in an effort to understand the relation between personality and risk taking, we selected a popular decision task with characteristics that parallel risk taking in the real world and two personality traits commonly believed to influence risk taking. A meta‐an...