Expecting feedback from an avatar compared to a real human facilitates risk-taking behavior in a gambling task, and a brain ...

To address this need, Tanaka and Haruno designed a task to examine how risk-taking behaviors and underlying neural computations change when a human communication partner's appearance alternates ...

"We found risk-taking behavior was strongly influenced by area-level socioeconomic status, with individuals in areas of lower ...

(Right) Increase in risk-taking under the avatar condition. The red line shows the average risk-taking rate under the Avatar condition, and the blue line under the Human condition. The x-axis ...