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The Balloon Analog Risk Task, otherwise known as BART, is a computerized decision-making task that is used to assess risk-taking behavior. The BART simulates a real-world situation, involving actual risky behavior, where taking a risk up until a certain point yields a reward. However, if risky behavior is kept up, it results in poorer outcomes. The BART model works best when used with self-reported real-world risk behaviors related to health, safety, and addiction (Lejuez et al., 2002).


Transcranial alternating current stimulation is an approach used to stimulate the brain with biophysically relevant frequencies while performing a task; this method investigates the functional role of neural oscillations in cognitive tasks and ascertains the role of neuronal oscillatory activities in the human brain. Sela et al. (2012) aimed to evaluate the increase in risk-taking behavior using active alternating current stimulations during Balloon Analog Risk Task. In this experiment, a group of 27 healthy college students, all right-handed and between the ages of 18-30, were selected. Participants were randomly assigned to three different stimulation groups (left hemisphere stimulation, right hemisphere stimulation, and sham stimulation). There were a total of 30 BART trials for each participant. While there was no difference in the decision-making between the right hemisphere and sham stimulations, the participants who received left hemisphere stimulation displayed riskier decision-making while performing the BART.



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The Balloon Analog Risk Task measures the propensity of an individual to indulge in risky behavior to gain a potential reward. It is a computerized decision-making task that is easy to use. BART can be used to assess the influence of risky behaviors such as drug use, unprotected sex, and driving without wearing a seatbelt in adolescents. It has vast applications, and when combined with self-reports and other tests, such as the Sensation Seeking Scale (Zuckerman et al., 1978) and Eysenck Impulsiveness Scale (Eysenck et al., 1985), it becomes a reliable measure of risk-taking behavior.


In trying to better understand why individuals begin and continue to smoke despite the obvious health consequences, researchers have become interested in identifying relevant personality variables, such as risk taking. In this study, the authors compared the ability of 2 behavioral measures of risk taking, the Bechara Gambling Task (BGT) and the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), to differentiate smokers and nonsmokers. Self-report measures of impulsivity and sensation seeking were taken for comparison with the 2 behavioral risk-taking tasks. Results indicate that behavior on the BART, and not the BGT, was related to smoking status. Further, when considered in a logistic regression analysis, only the Sensation Seeking total score and the BART score contributed uniquely to the differentiation of smokers and nonsmokers.


While the BART offers methodological benefits, it also comes with some methodological concerns (e.g., De Groot, 2020; Steiner & Frey, in press). These concerns include a lack of convergent validity with other measures of risk-taking, the distribution of burst points of balloons in the task not being representative of actual balloons, the potential conflation of uncertainty and risk in explaining behavior, difficulties in distinguishing adaptive behavior from maladaptive behavior, and difficulties in quantifying behavior.


The principled and complete way to overcome the limitations of the adjusted pump measure, while maintaining the original BART method, is to use all of the trials to measure risk propensity. This is naturally achieved using the statistical concept of censoring. Data are censored if external constraints prevent the true value of an observation from being fully known. The classic example from statistical textbooks is a weighing scale that only operates in a range from (say) 40 kg to 100 kg. This means that anyone weighing less than 40 kg or more than 100 kg will have measured weights that differ from their true weight, censored to values of 40 kg and 100 kg respectively.Footnote 1 In the same way, burst trials in the BART are censored measurements of how many pumps would have been made if the balloon had not burst. In particular, as pointed out by De Groot (2020), the observed number of pumps is a right censoring of the intended number of pumps, since only values greater than the burst point are affected.


The parameter estimates provided by our method are generally close to the generating values. This provides evidence that 50 BART problems, at least in these task conditions, will often be sufficient to provide useful inferences about risk propensity and behavioral consistency. The estimates are also, on average, much closer to the generating values than the estimates provided by the adjusted pumps measure. The scatterplots provide evidence that the adjusted pump measure often underestimates risk propensity, providing μ values that are smaller than the true generating values. There is also evidence that the adjusted pumps measure overestimates behavioral consistency, providing smaller σ values than the true generating values. These patterns of mis-estimation are especially evident for larger values of both parameters.


As Lee (2018) notes, such a parameter recovery study, and thus the analysis in Fig. 4, provides no information about the validity of our model. That is, the recovery study does not evaluate the modeling assumption that an individual completes a BART problem by aiming for a target number of pumps that is drawn from a truncated Gaussian distribution. The model recovery study results do provide confirmation that we implemented our model correctly, and that an experiment with 50 BART problems likely provides enough information about individual behavior to support useful inferences in the task conditions we examined. The results are also consistent with the claim that the adjusted pumps measure often underestimates risk propensity and overestimates behavioral consistency.






Park, H., Yang, J., Vassileva, J., & Ahn, W.-Y.2021.Journal of Mathematical PsychologyPDFpark2021bart.pdfSupplementpark2021bart_som.pdfDOI10.1016/j.jmp.2021.102532GitHubCCS-Lab/hBayesDMAbstractThe Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) is a popular task used to measure risk-taking behavior. To identify cognitive processes associated with choice behavior on the BART, a few computational models have been proposed. However, the extant models either fail to capture choice patterns on the BART or show poor parameter recovery performance. Here, we propose a novel computational model, the exponential-weight mean-variance (EWMV) model, which addresses the limitations of existing models. By using multiple model comparison methods, including post hoc model fits criterion and parameter recovery, we showed that the EWMV model outperforms the existing models. In addition, we applied the EWMV model to BART data from healthy controls and substance-using populations (patients with past opiate and stimulant dependence). The results suggest that (1) the EWMV model addresses the limitations of existing models and (2) heroin-dependent individuals show reduced risk preference than other groups, which may have significant clinical implications.


The present study is aimed to explore the effect of time-of-day on risky decision making, as well as the feedback learning effect of risk decision-making, and to examine the potential relationship between risk-taking and inhibition control under the regulation of time-of-day effect. We used the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) to measure the risk-taking.7,19,20 The BART provided multiple indexes to assess the risky decision making, not only the risk preference but also the feedback learning effect of learning during risk-taking. In detail, the number of balloon pumps in non-exploded balloons and the number of explosions reflect the risk preference, total gains reflect the performance of task, and the average number of pumps after exploded balloons or unexploded balloons (win or loss) reflect the feedback learning effects.7,21 Meanwhile, we used the Go/no-go task (GNG) to measure the performance of inhibitory control.22,23 The Go/no-go task required individuals to inhibit the prepotent response when the target stimulus appears, which widely applied to measure the inhibitory control function.11 Importantly, because of the interaction effect of chronotypes and time-of-day on risky behavior,6 we recruited individuals neither an extreme morning type nor an extreme evening type and adopted a within-participants design to avoid the potential confounding influence of individual differences.


Data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 software for Windows. The Paired t-tests were performed to compare the time-of-day differences regarding the performances of the BART, PVT, GNG tasks, and the subjective sleepiness rating. The Pearson correlation was performed to explore the relationship between risk-taking behavior- and inhibitory control.


This study aimed to examine the time-of-day effect (9 am and 3 pm) on risky decision making (measured using the BART) and inhibitory control (measured using the Go/no-go task) simultaneously with intermediate chronotype individuals. In line with our hypothesis, participants performed higher risk propensity and insensitivity to negative feedback (loss) and showed lower inhibitory control in the afternoon. However, the results failed to reveal a significant correlation between the diurnal change of inhibitory control and risk-taking. The present study indicated that both risky decision making and inhibitory control are regulated by the time-of-day effect, but these two psychological processes may be relatively independent under the regulation of time-of-day.


Although previous studies have shown that the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART; [Lejuez, C.W., Read, J.P., Kahler, C.W., Richards, J.B., Ramsey, S.E., Stuart, G.L., et al. (2002). Evaluation of a Behavioral Measure of Risk Taking: The Balloon Analogue Risk Test (BART). J Exp Psychol, Appl, 8, 75-84.; Lejuez, C., Aklin, W., Jones, H., Richards, J., Strong, D., Kahler, C.W., et al. (2003a). The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) Differentiates Smokers and Nonsmokers. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol, 11, 26-33.; Lejuez, C., Aklin, W., Zvolensky, M., & Pedulla, C. (2003b). Evaluation of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) as a Predictor of Adolescent Real-world Risk-taking Behaviors. J Adolesc, 26, 475-479.]) can be used to index real-world risk-taking behavior, questions remain regarding how performance on the task may vary as a function of reward/loss value and how this relationship may differ as a function of relevant personality traits. The present study examined BART score at 1, 5, and 25 cents per pump and how this relationship differed at low and high levels of impulsivity and sensation seeking. Results indicated that riskiness on the BART decreased as reward/loss magnitude increased. Further, this decrease was most prominent in those low in Impulsivity/Sensation Seeking, whereas those high in Impulsivity/Sensation Seeking were largely insensitive to variation in reward/loss magnitude. Findings are discussed in terms of sensitivity to reward and loss, and how these processes can be studied further using the BART including extensions to cognitive modeling and the measurement of neurobehavioral functioning.

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