期刊
JOURNAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR
卷 76, 期 1, 页码 1-19出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2001.76-1
关键词
concurrent schedules; risky choice; optimal foraging; energy budgets; adult humans; key press; points exchangeable for money
资金
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH11777] Funding Source: Medline
Risky choice in 3 adult humans was investigated across procedural manipulations designed to model energy-budget manipulations conducted with nonhumans. Subjects were presented with repeated choices between a fixed and a variable number of points. An energy budget was simulated by use of an earnings budget, defined as the number of points needed within a block of trials for points to be exchanged for money. During positive earnings-budget conditions, exclusive preference for the fixed option met the earnings requirement. During negative earnings-budget conditions, exclusive preference for the certain option did not meet the earnings requirement, but choice for the variable option met the requirement probabilistically. Choice was generally risk averse (the fixed option was preferred) when the earnings budget was positive and risk prone (the variable option was preferred) when the earnings budget was negative. Furthermore, choice was most risk prone during negative earnings-budget conditions in which the earnings requirement was most stringent. Local choice patterns were also frequently consistent with the predictions of a dynamic optimization model, indicating that choice was simultaneously sensitive to short-term choice contingencies, current point earnings, and the earnings requirement. Overall, these results show that the patterns of risky choice generated by energy-budget variables can also be produced by choice contingencies that do not involve immediate survival, and that risky, choice in humans may be similar to that shown in nonhumans when choice is studied under analogous experimental conditions.
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