Effect of age on expectancy of success and on risk-taking behavior.

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Involved rural Ss of 3 age groups-19 10-15 yr old boys, 22 20-30 yr old adults, and 16 adults 45 yrs old and over-in playing 2 games with varying degrees of risk, a ball-and-glass game and a grain-sorting task. Age had a significant effect on the expectancies and on the risk-taking behavior of the 3 age groups. Boys and younger adults displayed higher expectancies, by assigning higher probability values to the alternatives of the games, than did older adults. They also showed stronger preferences for intermediate risks than did the latter. This is interpreted as indicating significant age differences in the motivational dispositions of the groups. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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