@article{ref1,
title="Decision-making under risk conditions is susceptible to interference by a secondary executive task",
journal="Cognitive processing",
year="2011",
author="Starcke, Katrin and Pawlikowski, Mirko and Wolf, Oliver T. and Altstötter-Gleich, Christine and Brand, Matthias",
volume="12",
number="2",
pages="177-182",
abstract="Recent research suggests two ways of making decisions: an intuitive and an analytical one. The current study examines whether a secondary executive task interferes with advantageous decision-making in the Game of Dice Task (GDT), a decision-making task with explicit and stable rules that taps executive functioning. One group of participants performed the original GDT solely, two groups performed either the GDT and a 1-back or a 2-back working memory task as a secondary task simultaneously. Results show that the group which performed the GDT and the secondary task with high executive load (2-back) decided less advantageously than the group which did not perform a secondary executive task. These findings give further evidence for the view that decision-making under risky conditions taps into the rational-analytical system which acts in a serial and not parallel way as performance on the GDT is disturbed by a parallel task that also requires executive resources.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1612-4782",
doi="10.1007/s10339-010-0387-3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-010-0387-3"
}