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Balloon Analogue Risk Task

Free to use Risk Taking Assessment

Recommended Readings

A curated selection of essential publications for understanding the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, its applications, and theoretical foundations. These articles have been selected to provide researchers with key insights into the development, validation, and use of the BART across diverse research contexts.

2002
Evaluation of a behavioral measure of risk taking: The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)
Lejuez, C. W., Read, J. P., Kahler, C. W., Richards, J. B., Ramsey, S. E., Stuart, G. L., Strong, D. R., & Brown, R. A.
Why this article is recommended: This is the original publication introducing the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. It provides the foundational methodology, validation data, and theoretical rationale for the paradigm. Essential reading for any researcher planning to use the BART.
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2008
Development of an Automatic Response Mode to Improve the Clinical Utility of Sequential Risk-Taking Tasks
Pleskac, T. J., Wallsten, T. S., Wang, P., & Lejuez, C. W.
Why this article is recommended: This article introduces an automatic response version of the BART that addresses measurement biases in the traditional manual version. The automatic procedure yields unbiased statistics while maintaining predictive validity, making it particularly valuable for neuroscientific investigations and clinical populations with motor limitations.
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2003
The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) Differentiates Smokers and Nonsmokers
Lejuez, C. W., Aklin, W. M., Jones, H. A., Richards, J. B., Strong, D. R., Kahler, C. W., & Read, J. P.
Why this article is recommended: This study demonstrates the BART's ability to differentiate between smokers and nonsmokers, providing early evidence for the task's clinical utility in identifying risk-taking propensity related to health behaviors. The findings support the use of behavioral measures over traditional self-report methods in assessing risk-related personality traits.
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2005
Modeling Behavior in a Clinically Diagnostic Sequential Risk-Taking Task
Wallsten, T. S., Pleskac, T. J., & Lejuez, C. W.
Why this article is recommended: This landmark paper presents the first comprehensive computational modeling approach to the BART, providing insight into the cognitive processes underlying learning and sequential decision-making during risk-taking. The stochastic models developed in this work have become foundational for understanding how BART performance relates to real-world risk behaviors.
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