The Influence of Math Anxiety, Math Performance, Worry, and Test Anxiety on the Iowa Gambling Task and Balloon Analogue Risk Task

Buelow, Melissa T.; Barnhart, Wesley R.

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“…Comprehensive studies tend to indicate discrepancies across patterns of results involving the BART (Bishara et al, 2009;Purcell et al, 2017;De Groot and Thurik, 2018;Canning et al, 2022). For example, Maner and colleagues (2007) reported effects of anxiety on risk-taking, while a later study did not find such association (Buelow and Barnhart, 2017). King and colleagues (2014) reviewed the associations between impulsivity and alcohol consumption and observed discrepancies among studies that involved the BART.…”

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“…Measurements of risk-taking behavior are interesting for both general and clinical research. In fact, such trait as indexed by BART scores has been associated with dysfunctional psychophysiological phenotypes, including anxiety (Maner et al, 2007;Buelow and Barnhart, 2017), clinical disorders (Hunt et al, 2005;Swogger et al, 2010;Dominguez et al, 2011;Cheng et al, 2012;Robbins et al, 2012;Reddy et al, 2014;Fischer et al, 2015;Brown et al, 2015;Luk et al, 2019;Tikasz et al, 2019;Boka et al, 2020), abuse of heavy drugs (Hopko et al, 2006;Vassileva and Conrod, 2019), smoking attitudes (Lejuez et al, 2003;Lejuez et al, 2005;Dean et al, 2011;Hanson et al, 2014), alcohol consumption and related symptoms (Skeel et al, 2008;Fernie et al, 2010;Ashenhurst et al 2011;Weafer et al, 2011;DeMartini et al 2014;King et al, 2014), gambling (Holt et al, 2003;Mishra et al, 2017), risky sexual behavior (Lejuez et al, 2004;Bornovalova et al, 2008;Lawyer, 2013), and even with pandemic-related behavior (Guenther et al, 2021; for reviews on risk-taking and related dysfunctions see: Leigh, 1999;Turner et al, 2004;Isles et al, 2019). Moreover, BART use has been suggested as a potential marker for dissecting disease-related endophenotypes (Long et al, 2020).…”

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Appropriately Tuning Stochastic-Psychometric Properties of the Balloon Analogue Response Task (BART)

Plinio¹,

Pettorruso²,

Ebisch³

2022

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The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) allows to experimentally assess individuals’ risk-taking profiles in an ecologically sound setting. Many psychological and neuroscientific studies implemented the BART for its simplicity and intuitive nature. However, some issues in the design of the BART are systematically unconsidered in experimental paradigms, which may bias the estimation of individual risk-taking profiles. Since there are no methodological guidelines for implementing the BART, many variables (e.g., the maximum explosion probabilities, the rationale underlying stochastic events) vary inconstantly across experiments, possibly producing contrasting results. Moreover, the standard version of the BART is affected by the interaction of an individual-dependent, unavoidable source of stochasticity with a trial-dependent, more ambiguous source of stochasticity (i.e., the probability of the balloon to explode). This paper shows the most appropriate experimental choices for having the lowest error in the approximation of risk-taking profiles. Performance tests of a series of simulated data suggest that a more controlled, eventually non-stochastic version of the BART, better approximates original risk-taking profiles. Selecting optimal BART parameters is particularly important in neuroscience experiments to optimize the number of trials in a time window appropriate for acquiring neuroimaging data. We also provide helpful suggestions to researchers in many fields to allow the implementation of optimized risk-taking experiments using the BART.

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confidence: 99%

Appropriately Tuning Stochastic-Psychometric Properties of the Balloon Analogue Response Task (BART)

Plinio¹,

Pettorruso²,

Ebisch³

2022

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“…Unlike the other measures, we did not find any effects of caffeine on performance in this task. Null effects are common with the IGT (Aklin et al, 2005;Lejuez et al, 2003aLejuez et al, , 2003bOverman et al, 2004) and many studies have shown that performance on the task can be influenced by contextual factors such as stress or mood (Buelow and Barnhart, 2015;Preston et al, 2007). Therefore, participants may have become more comfortable with the laboratory setting over time and this may have altered performance in the task.…”

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Effects of acute and chronic caffeine on risk-taking behavior in children and adolescents

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Consumption of caffeinated beverages is associated with increased risk-taking behavior. The purpose of this study was to determine if acute caffeine administration influences risk-taking behavior in a dose-dependent manner. Participants were pre- (ages 8-9) and post-pubertal (ages 15-17) children who visited the laboratory three times and consumed a beverage containing 0, 1, or 2 mg/kg of caffeine. Thirty minutes later, participants completed the balloon analogue risk task (BART), the Iowa gambling task (IGT), and a delay discounting task. The number of balloons exploded on the BART task was significantly increased after 2 mg/kg of caffeine in moderate caffeine consumers, but was decreased after 2 mg/kg of caffeine in high caffeine consumers. There were no main effects of caffeine dose on the delay discounting task or on the IGT. Post-pubertal participants showed reduced delay discounting compared with pre-pubertal participants. Finally, average daily caffeine use was significantly, positively correlated with scores on a risk-taking questionnaire. These data suggest that caffeine dose-dependently influences decision making and risk taking. More research is needed to determine the mechanism of this difference as well as the extent to which sex and pubertal phase influence these relationships.

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“…The widespread utilization of the BART is motivated by its capability in recreating an ecological experience to uncover (neuro)cognitive underpinnings of risk-taking in healthy subjects ( Lejuez et al, 2002 , 2003 , 2005 ; Weafer et al, 2011 ; De Groot, 2020 ; Guenther et al, 2021 ). However, measurements of risk-taking behavior are also interesting for clinical research since risk-taking indexed by BART scores has been associated with dysfunctional psychophysiological phenotypes, including anxiety ( Maner et al, 2007 ; Buelow and Barnhart, 2017 ), clinical disorders ( Hunt et al, 2005 ; Swogger et al, 2010 ; Dominguez, 2011 ; Cheng et al, 2012 ; Robbins et al, 2012 ; Reddy et al, 2014 ; Brown et al, 2015 ; Fischer et al, 2015 ; Tikàsz et al, 2019 ; Boka et al, 2020 ; Luk et al, 2021 ), abuse of heavy drugs ( Hopko et al, 2006 ; Vassilva and Conrod, 2019 ), smoking attitudes ( Lejuez et al, 2003 , 2005 ; Dean et al, 2011 ; Hanson et al, 2014 ), alcohol consumption and related symptoms ( Skeel et al, 2008 ; Fernie et al, 2010 ; Ashenhurst et al, 2011 ; Weafer et al, 2011 ; DeMartini et al, 2014 ; King et al, 2014 ), gambling ( Holt et al, 2003 ; Mishra et al, 2017 ), risky sexual behavior ( Lejuez et al, 2004 ; Bornovalova et al, 2008 ; Lawyer, 2013 ; for reviews on risk-taking and related dysfunctions see: Leigh, 1999 ; Turner et al, 2004 ; Isles et al, 2019 ). Moreover, BART use has been suggested as a potential marker for dissecting disease-related endophenotypes ( Long et al, 2020 ).…”

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Appropriately Tuning Stochastic-Psychometric Properties of the Balloon Analog Risk Task

2022

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The Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART) allows to experimentally assess individuals’ risk-taking profiles in an ecologically sound setting. Many psychological and neuroscientific studies implemented the BART for its simplicity and intuitive nature. However, some issues in the design of the BART are systematically unconsidered in experimental paradigms, which may bias the estimation of individual risk-taking profiles. Since there are no methodological guidelines for implementing the BART, many variables (e.g., the maximum explosion probabilities, the rationale underlying stochastic events) vary inconstantly across experiments, possibly producing contrasting results. Moreover, the standard version of the BART is affected by the interaction of an individual-dependent, unavoidable source of stochasticity with a trial-dependent, more ambiguous source of stochasticity (i.e., the probability of the balloon to explode). This paper shows the most appropriate experimental choices for having the lowest error in the approximation of risk-taking profiles. Performance tests of a series of simulated data suggest that a more controlled, eventually non-stochastic version of the BART, better approximates original risk-taking profiles. Selecting optimal BART parameters is particularly important in neuroscience experiments to optimize the number of trials in a time window appropriate for acquiring neuroimaging data. We also provide helpful suggestions to researchers in many fields to allow the implementation of optimized risk-taking experiments using the BART.

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The Influence of Math Anxiety, Math Performance, Worry, and Test Anxiety on the Iowa Gambling Task and Balloon Analogue Risk Task

Cited by 20 publications

References 73 publications

Appropriately Tuning Stochastic-Psychometric Properties of the Balloon Analogue Response Task (BART)

Appropriately Tuning Stochastic-Psychometric Properties of the Balloon Analogue Response Task (BART)

Effects of acute and chronic caffeine on risk-taking behavior in children and adolescents

Appropriately Tuning Stochastic-Psychometric Properties of the Balloon Analog Risk Task

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