Assessment of Decision-making Competence in Preadolescence

• Published in: Journal of behavioral decision making Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 414 - 426
• Main Authors: Weller, Joshua A., Levin, Irwin P., Rose, Jason P., Bossard, Elaine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.10.2012; Wiley; Wiley Periodicals Inc
• Subjects: Adolescence; Adolescents; Behavioral decision theory; Children; Children & youth; Cognitive ability; Decision making; decision-making competence; Entscheidung; Fragebogen; framing; individual differences; inhibitory control; Kinder; Kognition; Perception; preadolescence; Prospect Theory; Rationality; Risk; Risk assessment; Self control; Studies

ABSTRACT Recent research using late adolescent (18–19 years) and adult samples suggests that within‐subject performance on a variety of standard, controlled laboratory tasks reflects a higher‐order positive manifold of decision‐making competence. The present paper extends this important work by test...