{"pk":27115,"title":"Risky Decision Making for Medications: Age and Social Influence Effects","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Prior studies on older adults’ risk taking have paid little\nattention to the healthcare domain or social influences on\ndecision making. This study examined age-related differences\nin medication risk taking and the effects of a collaborative\ndecision-making experience on individuals’ tendency to take\nrisks. We recruited 24 younger (mean age = 19.50, SD = 1.41)\nand 24 older adults (mean age = 70.54, SD = 2.30), and asked\nthem to choose between hypothetical medications that\ndiffered in probabilities and outcomes of treatment success.\nTo investigate the effects of risk-neutral versus risk-\nadvantageous trials, participants chose between a risky option\nand a sure option that had equal expected values (risk-neutral)\nor between a risky option and a sure option that had a lower\nexpected value (risk-advantageous). Participants completed\nthe decision task first individually (the pre-collaboration\nphase), then in dyads (the collaboration phase), and once\nagain individually (the post-collaboration phase). During the\npre-collaboration phase older adults showed a smaller\nincrease in risk-taking tendency in response to risk-\nadvantageous trials compared to younger adults. The pre-and\npost-collaboration data showed that older adults’ risk\npreferences converged towards their partner’s preference to a\ngreater extent following collaboration relative to younger\nadults. These findings highlight the importance of designing\ndecision aids to encourage older adults to take risks when risk\ntaking is beneficial, and considering how social processes\ninfluence patients’ medication decisions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"risky decision making"},{"word":"health"},{"word":"aging"},{"word":"social\ninfluence"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qh087pz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Amy","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Chong","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"T.","last_name":"Bixter","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign","department":""},{"first_name":"Wendy","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Rogers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27115/galley/16751/download/"}]}