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SUBMITTER: Ahrends C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6704180 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahrends C C Bravo F F Kringelbach M L ML Vuust P P Rohrmeier M A MA
Scientific reports 20190821 1
When faced with a decision, most people like to know the odds and prefer to avoid ambiguity. It has been suggested that this aversion to ambiguity is linked to people's assumption of worst possible outcomes. We used two closely linked behavioural tasks in 78 healthy participants to investigate whether such pessimistic prior beliefs can explain ambiguity aversion. In the risk-taking task, participants had to decide whether or not they place a bet, while in the beliefs task, participants were aske ...[more]