Investigation of Risk Taking Behavior and Outcomes in Decision Making with Modified bart (m-bart)

ABSTRACT

Thesis Abstract – max 250 words

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*The purpose of an abstract is to concisely state the purpose, methods and results of the study in a concise paragraph or two.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT	iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS	iv
LIST OF TABLES	v
LIST OF FIGURES	vi
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS	vii
INTRODUCTION	1
CHAPTER I TITLE	3
1.1. Title	5
1.2. Title	9
CHAPTER II TITLE	15
2.1.	18
2.2.	21
2.2.1.	25
2.2.2.	28
CHAPTER III TITLE	29
3.1.	29
3.2.	35
CONCLUSION	41
REFERENCES	43
APPENDICES	45
APPENDIX A	46
APPENDIX B	52

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Decision Making Terminology 1

Table 2: xxxx 3

LIST OF FIGURES*

Figure 1: Iris muscles and corresponding pupillary responses 2

Figure 2:xxx

*List of Figures must include all figures (i.e. illustrations, photographs, charts, etc.) within the body of the thesis, listed by figure number and caption.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

BART	Balloon Analog Risk Task
BIAS	Behavioral Investment Allocation Strategy
CCT	Columbia Card Task
CGT	Cambridge Gambling Task
DLPFC	Dorso-Lateral Pre-Frontal Cortex
DMPFC	Dorso-medial Pre-Frontal Cortex
DOSPERT	Domain Specific Risk Taking
EEG	Electro-Encephalography
EV	Expected Value
fMRI	Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
fNIRS	Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
GLM	General Linear Model
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HCI	Human-Computer Interaction
HMM	Hidden Markov Model
IGT	Iowa Gambling Task
ISI	Inter-Stimulus Interval
LC	Locus Coeruleus
m-BART	Modified Balloon Analog Risk Task
NA	Noradrenaline
NAcc	Nucleus Accumbens
OFC	Orbito-Frontal Cortex
PET	Positron Emission Tomography
POG-VOG	Photo-Video Oculography
rTMS	Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
SCR	Skin Conductance Response
SDK	Software Development Kit
SMH	Somatic Marker Hypothesis
VMPFC	Ventro-medial Pre-Frontal Cortex
WCST	Wisconsin Card Sorting Task

INTRODUCTION
Introduction – brief overview explaining the background and importance of the study and must consist of following sub-sections:

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Purpose of the Study – explanation of the problem and what the researcher hopes to achieve by conducting the study.

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Note: Number of pages for “Introduction” part should consist of 2 pages for Bachelor students.

CHAPTER I

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Figure 1: Iris muscles and corresponding pupillary responses: Constriction and dilation.

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CHAPTER II

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	Paired Differences					t	df	Sig. (2-tailed)
	Mean	Std. Deviation	Std. Error Mean	95% Confidence Interval of the Difference
				Lower	Upper
Pair 1: Risk Aversive & Risk Taking	-61.24	263.00	75.92	-228.35	105.86	-.807	11	.437

CHAPTER III

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CONCLUSION

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REFERENCES

1. 
   Bernoulli, D. (1954). Exposition of a new theory on the measurement of risk - Originally published in 1738; translated by Dr. Louise Sommer. Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society , 23-36.
   

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   Blakemore, S. J., & Robbins, T. W. (2012). Decision making in the adolescent brain. Nature Neuroscience , 15, 1184-1191.
   

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   Buelow, M. T., & Suhr, J. A. (2013). Personality characteristics and state mood influence individual deck selections on the Iowa Gambling Task. Personality and Individual Differences , 54 (5), 593-597.
   

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   Camerer, C. (1999). Behavioral economics: Reunifying psychology and economics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 96 (19), 10575-10577.
   

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   Caplin, A., & Dean, M. (2009). Dopamine, reward prediction error, and economics. Quarterly Journal of Economics , 123 (2), 663-701.
   

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   Cavanagh, J. F., Wiecki, T. V., Kochar, A., & Frank, M. J. (2014). Eye tracking and pupillometry are indicators of dissociable latent decision processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , 143 (4), 1476-1488.
   

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A

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APPENDIX B

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