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SUBMITTER: Bach DR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7115941 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bach Dominik R DR Moutoussis Michael M Bowler Aislinn A Dolan Raymond J RJ
Nature human behaviour 20200511 8
During adolescence and early adulthood, learning when to avoid threats and when to pursue rewards becomes crucial. Using a risky foraging task, we investigated individual differences in this dynamic across 781 individuals aged 14-24 years who were split into a hypothesis-generating discovery sample and a hold-out confirmation sample. Sex was the most important predictor of cautious behaviour and performance. Males earned one standard deviation (or 20%) more reward than females, collected more re ...[more]