Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University , Newark, OH 43055 , USA
Abstract
Abstract
Objective
Decision-making is responsible for the best and worst of human nature. The field of decision science has done much to elucidate the psychological process of decision-making, variables that affect decision-making, and outcomes of disadvantageous decision-making. However, understanding any psychological process requires creation of reliable measures. Few studies focus on the test–retest reliability of behavioral decision-making tasks despite their utility in repeated assessment batteries.
Method
The present study examined the extent to which common behavioral decision-making tasks are reliable across time. Across two samples and two time points, participants completed multiple decision-making assessments.
Results
Results revealed moderate at best evidence of test–retest reliability across a 10-week interval in any of the tasks assessed.
Conclusions
These findings raise large questions for the field of behavioral decision-making and the utility for tasks to track changes in decision-making across time in clinical populations.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Psychology,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology,General Medicine