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Escalating Risk And The Moderating Effect Of Resistance To Peer Influence On The P200 And Feedback-Related Negativity, John Kiat, Elizabeth Straley, Jacob Cheadle
Escalating Risk And The Moderating Effect Of Resistance To Peer Influence On The P200 And Feedback-Related Negativity, John Kiat, Elizabeth Straley, Jacob Cheadle
Department of Psychology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Young people frequently socialize together in contexts that encourage risky decision making, pointing to a need for research into how susceptibility to peer influence is related to individual differences in the neural processing of decisions during sequentially escalating risk. We applied a novel analytic approach to analyze EEG activity from college-going students while they completed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), a well-established risk-taking propensity assessment. By modeling outcome-processing-related changes in the P200 and feedback-related negativity (FRN) sequentially within each BART trial as a function of pump order as an index of increasing risk, our results suggest that analyzing the …