Open Access<p>Ideal Time of Day for Risky Decision Making: Evidence from the Balloon Analogue Risk Task</p>
Author(s) -
Mingzhu Li,
Zifeng Mai,
Jiayu Yang,
Bin Zhang,
Ning Ma
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nature and science of sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.715
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 1179-1608
DOI - 10.2147/nss.s260321
Subject(s) - morning , inhibitory control , medicine , preference , cognition , chronotype , time of day , task (project management) , inhibitory postsynaptic potential , audiology , physiology , developmental psychology , demography , psychology , psychiatry , zoology , biology , statistics , mathematics , management , sociology , economics
Previous studies have demonstrated that individuals showed higher risk preference in the afternoon than in the morning. However, few studies aimed to explore the alteration of feedback learning effect during risky decision making, which is one of the important psychological processes of real risk behaviors. Moreover, cognitive function altered at the off-peak time due to impaired inhibitory control. The present study is to investigate the time-of-day effect on risky decision making and inhibitory control and whether the alteration of inhibitory control causes the differences in risky decision making across one day.