Predisposition to risk and persistence under varying reinforcement-success schedules.

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107 MALE UNDERGRADUATES WERE APPROACHED INFORMALLY IN THEIR DORMITORY ROOMS AND ASKED TO PARTICIPATE IN 1 OF 2 EXPERIMENTS. IN EXP. I SS RECEIVED IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF $1, WHILE IN EXP. II SS HAD A 1/60 CHANCE OF WINNING $60 FOR PARTICIPATION. CHOICE BETWEEN THE 2 FURNISHED 1 MEASURE OF RISK-TAKING TENDENCY, AND THE KOGAN-WALLACH CHOICE DILEMMAS QUESTIONNAIRE, ANOTHER. TASK PERSISTENCE WAS MEASURED ON A PSYCHOLINGUISTICS TASK WHICH REQUIRED S TO JUDGE WHETHER A SPECIFIC ENGLISH WORD WAS A COGNATE OF A GIVEN AFRICAN WORD. THE REINFORCEMENT-SUCCESS FEEDBACK ADMINISTERED BY E WAS CONTRIVED AND VARIED ACROSS SS. AFTER 10 JUDGMENTS SS WERE ALLOWED TO STOP AT ANY POINT OF THEIR CHOOSING; THE NUMBER OF JUDGMENTS MADE REPRESENTED THE PERSISTENCE SCORE. BOTH HIGH- AND LOW-RISK SS WERE MORE PERSISTENT AT INTERMEDIATE THAN AT HIGH OR LOW LEVELS OF SUCCESS. THIS TENDENCY WAS MORE EVIDENT IN THE CASE OF HIGH-RISK SS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)

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