Are risky choices actually guided by a compensatory process? New insights from FMRI.

The dominant theories about risky decision-making assume that decision conflicts are solved by a compensatory process involving a trade-off of probability against payoff, but it is unclear whether these theories actually represent the events that occur when people make a risky decision. By contrasti...

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Main Authors: Li-Lin Rao, Yuan Zhou, Lijuan Xu, Zhu-Yuan Liang, Tianzi Jiang, Shu Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3055867?pdf=render