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Strong evidence that callous–unemotional traits are not related to risk-taking task performance

Centifanti, Luna C.M.; Negen, James

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Authors

Luna C.M. Centifanti

James Negen



Abstract

A hypothesized association between callous–unemotional (CU) traits and risk-taking may account for the link between CU traits and real-world risky behaviors, such as illegal behavior. Prior findings show that reward and punishment responsivity differs in relation to CU traits, but is not associated with general risk-taking. However this has only been examined previously with one task, only with a frequentist framework, and with limited interpretation. Here, we expand to another task and to Bayesian analyses. A total of 657 participants (52% female) completed the Inventory of Callous–Unemotional Traits, the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (essentially a gambling task), and the Stoplight driving task, which repeatedly presents participants with riskier or less risky choices to make while driving. We found strong evidence for the null model, in which there is no relation between the two risk-taking tasks and CU traits (R2 = 0.001; BF10 = 1/60.22). These results suggest that general risk-taking does not underlie the real-world risky behavior of people with CU traits. Alternative explanations include a different method of valuing certain outcomes.

Citation

Centifanti, L. C., & Negen, J. (2018). Strong evidence that callous–unemotional traits are not related to risk-taking task performance. F1000Research, 7, Article 502. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.14623.1

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Apr 26, 2018
Publication Date Apr 26, 2018
Deposit Date May 31, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal F1000Research
Publisher Taylor and Francis
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 7
Article Number 502
DOI https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.14623.1

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Copyright: © 2018 Centifanti LCM and Negen J. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).





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