Unconscious Processing in Decision-making

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

No intervention: No intervention

Study summary

This behavioral study on healthy participants aims to provide a baseline reference for assessing alterations of decision-making performance in pathological conditions. To this purpose, this single center non-interventional behavioral study will assess the extent to which decision-making performance is affected by distinct experimental manipulations, as well as by ageing effects, in 200 healthy individuals. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* to what extent is decision-making performance stable, within individuals, regardless of non-economic manipulations concerning stimuli perceptual features as well as type of processing and motor response required to participants?
* are these manipulations additionally influenced by participants' age?

Healthy participants will be recruited for distinct behavioral studies assessing the effects of the aforementioned manipulations of distinct metrics of decision-making performance, such as loss aversion, risk aversion, and delay discounting.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Individual index of loss aversion — Behavioral-study day 1
  This variable reflect the spontaneous disposition to overweigh potential losses, compared with equivalent gains in decision-making, resulting in the tendency to avoid potential losses more than approach potential gains.

Trial sites (1)

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