- Title
- Some evidence for an association between early life adversity and decision urgency
- Creator
- Knowles, Johanne P.; Evans, Nathan J.; Burke, Darren
- Relation
- Frontiers in Psychology Vol. 10, no. 243
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00243
- Publisher
- Frontiers Research Foundation
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The relationship between early life adversity and adult outcomes is traditionally investigated relative to risk and protective factors (e.g., resilience, cognitive appraisal), and poor self-control or decision-making. However, life history theory suggests this relationship may be adaptive—underpinned by mechanisms that use early environmental cues to alter the developmental trajectory toward more short-term strategies. These short-term strategies have some theoretical overlap with the most common process models of decision-making—evidence accumulation models—which model decision urgency as a decision threshold. The current study examined the relationship between decision urgency (through the linear ballistic accumulator) and early life adversity. A mixture of analysis methods, including a joint model analysis designed to explicitly account for uncertainty in estimated decision urgency values, revealed weak-to-strong evidence in favor of a relationship between decision urgency and early life adversity, suggesting a possible effect of life history strategy on even the most basic decisions.
- Subject
- early life adversity; decision urgency; life history theory; cognitive modelling; evidence accumulation models
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1455983
- Identifier
- uon:45156
- Identifier
- ISSN:1664-1078
- Rights
- Copyright © 2019 Knowles, Evans and Burke. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- Language
- eng
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