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Decision-making ability in young people is linked to social function
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and UCL have identified a general factor called ‘decision acuity’ that affects young people’s decision-making ability, independent of IQ, and is associated with good social functioning. The results have been published in the journal Neuron.
Decision acuity underpins multiple types of decision-making and is a novel construct.
“People with higher decision acuity do not always make the best decisions, but they go for specific decisions in a consistent way,” says corresponding author Dr Michael Moutoussis, researcher at Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry & Ageing Research and Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. “Low decision acuity is associated with poorer social function, and may be linked with mental illness symptoms.”