{"title":"The Repeated Gambles Task: A Measure of Individual Differences in Normative Decision Making","authors":"Michael McCormick","doi":"10.1080/01973533.2023.2215365","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Most decision-making inventories measure bias and little attempt is made to identify individuals who are more likely to maximize economic opportunities. Four experiments tested a novel measure of individual differences in normative decision making that is easy to administer and identifies a wide range of variance in economic choice. All four experiments demonstrated that responses to the Repeated Gambles Task (RGT) are independent of ostensibly related measures and identify the tendency to make normative decisions. The RGT may be used in educational, research and applied settings to examine the effectiveness of training and to aid in research and hiring decisions. As such, the RGT is offered as a novel tool for use in a wide-range of basic and applied settings.","PeriodicalId":48014,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Social Psychology","volume":"45 1","pages":"80 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Basic and Applied Social Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2023.2215365","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract Most decision-making inventories measure bias and little attempt is made to identify individuals who are more likely to maximize economic opportunities. Four experiments tested a novel measure of individual differences in normative decision making that is easy to administer and identifies a wide range of variance in economic choice. All four experiments demonstrated that responses to the Repeated Gambles Task (RGT) are independent of ostensibly related measures and identify the tendency to make normative decisions. The RGT may be used in educational, research and applied settings to examine the effectiveness of training and to aid in research and hiring decisions. As such, the RGT is offered as a novel tool for use in a wide-range of basic and applied settings.
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Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) emphasizes the publication of outstanding research articles, but also considers literature reviews, criticism, and methodological or theoretical statements spanning the entire range of social psychological issues. The journal will publish basic work in areas of social psychology that can be applied to societal problems, as well as direct application of social psychology to such problems. The journal provides a venue for a broad range of specialty areas, including research on legal and political issues, environmental influences on behavior, organizations, aging, medical and health-related outcomes, sexuality, education and learning, the effects of mass media, gender issues, and population problems.