Memory reflected in our decisions: Higher working memory capacity predicts greater bias in risky choice

The current study looks at the role working memory plays in risky-choice framing. eighty-six participants took the automatic ospan,a measurement of working memory; this was followed by a risky-choice framing task. participants with high working memory capacities demonstrated well pronounced framing effects,while those with low working memory capacities did not. this pattern suggests that,in a typical risky-choice decision task,elaborative encoding of task information by those with high working memory capacity may lead them to a more biased decision compared to those with low working memory.