Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals

Abstract Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity rather than risk. While risk and ambiguity are formally distinc...

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Autores principales:	Joshua W. Buckholtz, Uma Karmarkar, Shengxuan Ye, Grace M. Brennan, Arielle Baskin-Sommers
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ca25cbd234484ed197a47a4df63631af2021-12-02T16:06:42ZBlunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals10.1038/s41598-017-02149-62045-2322https://doaj.org/article/ca25cbd234484ed197a47a4df63631af2017-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02149-6https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity rather than risk. While risk and ambiguity are formally distinct and experimentally dissociable, little is known about ambiguity sensitivity in individuals who engage in chronic antisocial behavior. We used a financial decision-making task in a high-risk community-based sample to test for associations between sensitivity to ambiguity, antisocial behavior, and arrest history. Sensitivity to ambiguity was lower in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Lower ambiguity sensitivity was also associated with higher externalizing (but not psychopathy) scores, and with higher levels of aggression (but not rule-breaking). Finally, blunted sensitivity to ambiguity also predicted a greater frequency of arrests. Together, these data suggest that alterations in cost-benefit decision-making under conditions of ambiguity may promote antisocial behavior.Joshua W. BuckholtzUma KarmarkarShengxuan YeGrace M. BrennanArielle Baskin-SommersNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Joshua W. Buckholtz Uma Karmarkar Shengxuan Ye Grace M. Brennan Arielle Baskin-Sommers Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals
description	Abstract Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity rather than risk. While risk and ambiguity are formally distinct and experimentally dissociable, little is known about ambiguity sensitivity in individuals who engage in chronic antisocial behavior. We used a financial decision-making task in a high-risk community-based sample to test for associations between sensitivity to ambiguity, antisocial behavior, and arrest history. Sensitivity to ambiguity was lower in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Lower ambiguity sensitivity was also associated with higher externalizing (but not psychopathy) scores, and with higher levels of aggression (but not rule-breaking). Finally, blunted sensitivity to ambiguity also predicted a greater frequency of arrests. Together, these data suggest that alterations in cost-benefit decision-making under conditions of ambiguity may promote antisocial behavior.
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author	Joshua W. Buckholtz Uma Karmarkar Shengxuan Ye Grace M. Brennan Arielle Baskin-Sommers
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title	Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals
title_short	Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals
title_full	Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals
title_fullStr	Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals
title_full_unstemmed	Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals
title_sort	blunted ambiguity aversion during cost-benefit decisions in antisocial individuals
publisher	Nature Portfolio
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Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals

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