Risky Decision-Making

Timeline

2015

Description

Ethan Levine, Annie Tang, and Brandon Ho spent ten weeks investigating whether personality traits can be used to predict how people make risky decisions. They used a large dataset collected by the lab of Prof. Scott Huettel, and were mentored by graduate students Emma Wu Dowd and Jonathan Winkle.

Project Results

The team used machine learning and statistical techniques to show that the answers given by a subject to five specific survey questions could be used to predict the amount of betting risk the subject would tolerate.

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Disciplines Involved

• Cognitive Neuroscience


• Psychology


• Machine Learning

Project Team

Client: Scott Huettel, Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience

Project Mentors:

• Emma Wu Dowd, graduate student, Cognitive Neuroscience


• Jonathan Winkle, graduate student, Psychology and Neuroscience