Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
Psychol Aging. 2012 Mar;27(1):129-40. doi: 10.1037/a0024689. Epub 2011 Jul 18.
Are older adults risk seeking or risk averse? Answering this question might depend on both the task used and the analysis performed. By modeling responses to the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), our results illustrate the value of modeling as compared to relying on common analysis techniques. While analysis of overall measures suggested initially that older and younger adults do not differ in their risky decisions, our modeling results indicated that younger adults were at first more willing to take greater risks. Furthermore, older adults may be more cautious when their decision making is based on initial perceptions of risk, rather than learning following some experience with a task.
老年人是风险寻求者还是风险规避者？回答这个问题可能取决于所使用的任务和执行的分析。通过对气球模拟风险任务（BART）的反应进行建模，我们的结果说明了建模相对于依赖常见分析技术的价值。虽然对整体措施的分析最初表明，老年人和年轻人在冒险决策方面没有差异，但我们的建模结果表明，年轻人最初更愿意承担更大的风险。此外，当老年人的决策基于对风险的初始感知，而不是在经历某项任务后学习时，他们可能会更加谨慎。
