Interactions between risky decisions, impulsiveness and smoking in young tattooed women

Interactions between risky decisions, impulsiveness and smoking in young tattooed women

BACKGROUND According to previous studies, one of the common problems of everyday life of persons with tattoos is risky behavior. However, direct examination of the decision making process, as well as factors which determine women's risk-taking decisions to get tattoos, have not been conducted. This study investigates whether risk taking decision-making is associated with the self-assessment imp...

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Impulsiveness and cigarette smoking.

OBJECTIVE Varying aspects of impulsive personality have been associated with tobacco use in cross-sectional and prospective studies, including novelty seeking and (low) constraint but most studies have not examined more than one tobacco use phenotype (e.g., any tobacco use versus dependence) or considered more than one variety of impulsiveness simultaneously. METHODS The current study was con...

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Evolution and risky decisions.

Does the human mind possess domain-specific inference mechanisms for solving the sorts of problems that confronted our distant ancestors? In a recent paper, Rode et al. argue that human decision-making was shaped by an evolutionary history of foraging to include procedures for reasoning adaptively about risk. The task of demonstrating the adaptiveness of human decision-making would appear to be...