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CONCEPT
risk seeking
The willingness of an individual to choose an option with a less-than-certain probability of reward over an option with a certain reward of equal or higher expected value.

Classified under Reasoning and Decision Making
Definition contributed by EBarkley-Levenson about two years ago.

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Task Contrast Measure

Non-choice task to study expected value and uncertainty
  • response time to risky choices minus response time to non-risky choices
 
  • number of participant's risky choices minus average number of risky choices
 

Risky Gains task
  • frequency of selecting the safe choice (20) minus frequency of selecting risky choices (40 and 80)
 

Probabilistic gambling task
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
 

Mixed gambles task
  • number of choices with greater chance of loss than gain minus number of choices with greater chance of gain than loss
 

Iowa Gambling Task
  • accuracy of subject minus average accuracy of controls
 

Devils Task
  • negative feedback
 

Cups task
  • number or value of rewards times probability of reward
 

Choice task between risky and non-risky options
  • risky option
 

Cambridge Gambling Task
  • correct answers times probability of each color
 

Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)
  • negative feedback
 
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