Data for: Ego Depletion Decreases Risk-Taking on the Columbia Card Task: The Moderating Role of Task Features

Previous exertions of self-control can affect subsequent risk preferences usually resulting in risk-seeking tendencies. A few studies, however, have found that reductions in self-control resources (i.e., “ego depletion”) can decrease risk-taking resulting in relative risk-aversion compared to non-depleted controls. Using the Columbia Card Task (CCT), we found that the ego depleted risked less than their non-depleted counterparts when task features promoted feelings of perceived control. Manipulations aimed at reducing perceived control eliminated this depletion effect and descriptively reversed the trend so that the ego depleted were risking more than the controls. We replicated the observed decrease in risk-taking among depleted individuals and showed that the results were not due to depletion increasing passivity or task disengagement. Data and syntax files are attached. For more information regarding these data sets, please contact Ryan Corser, [e-mail]

既往的自我控制力 exertion 可能在一定程度上影响后续的风险偏好，通常导致寻求风险的倾向。然而，一些研究表明，自我控制资源（即所谓的“自我耗竭”）的减少可以降低风险承担，相对于未耗竭的控制组，产生相对的风险规避。通过哥伦比亚卡片任务（Columbia Card Task，简称 CCT），我们发现，在任务特征促进感知控制感的情况下，自我耗竭的个体比未耗竭的对照个体承担的风险更低。旨在降低感知控制的操作消除了这种耗竭效应，并描述性地逆转了这一趋势，使得自我耗竭的个体承担的风险超过了控制组。我们复制了耗竭个体风险承担减少的观察结果，并表明这些结果并非因耗竭增加了被动性或任务参与度不足。所附数据与语法文件。如需了解更多关于这些数据集的信息，请联系 Ryan Corser，邮箱：[e-mail]。