Risk-taking unmasked: Using risky choice and temporal discounting to explain COVID-19 preventative behaviors
Fig 2
Effect of risky choice on number of interpersonal social interactions by gambling type.
Advantageous gambles indicate that the expected value for the risky choice was higher than the safe gamble. Disadvantageous gambles indicate that the expected value for the risky option was lower than the safe option, and the expected values for both safe and risky choices were the same for Equal gambles. The results demonstrated that choosing a higher proportion of Disadvantageous and Equal Gambles predicted a greater number of interpersonal social interactions, meaning that participants engaged in less rigorous social distancing.