The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) in Brazil: a systematic review

Rutz, André; Hamdan, Amer Cavalheiro; Lamar, Melissa

doi:10.1590/s2237-60892013000300003

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“…In spite of efforts toward cultural adaptation of the task (e.g., Rutz et al, 2013), potential sex-differences in phase-specific IGT performance across countries that differ in sociocultural and gender-equitable environment remain unexplored. For instance, decision making in the risk phase of IGT differed between two culturally different countries but showed no effect of age or gender (e.g., Brazil and United States) (Bakos et al, 2010).…”

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Country and Sex Differences in Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Risk

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Whether males and females differ in decision-making remains highly debatable. However, a male advantage in decision making is observed in animal as well as human models of the iowa gambling task (IGT), and, in case of the latter, the difference is observed across a wide range of age groups. It is unclear if these sex differences on the IGT are malleable to environmental influences such as sociocultural factors. We tested sex differences during the uncertainty and risk phases of the IGT in data pooled from three countries that reflected high, moderate, to low gender-equity (Germany, United States, and India: N = 531, female = 269). Comparing the net scores in uncertainty vs. risk blocks (first two vs. last two blocks) confirmed the maleadvantage on the IGT across the three countries, specifically in the risk blocks, with the highest male-advantage observed for Germany. Results are discussed in terms of sex differences in reaction to uncertainty vs. risk, and the counter-intuitive effect of gender-equitable environment suggesting that national/environmental factors might influence advantageous decision making, but in ways that accentuate rather than abate sex differences.

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