Abstract:We investigated how frequency and amount of punishment affect the
decision making of Iranian subjects. In our first experiment, performing a
computer-based Persian version of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), our subjects
scored remarkably lower than their Western counterparts. Moreover, our
subjects chose more frequently and more rapidly from decks that had less
frequent but larger amounts of pu… Show more
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