A betting dice test to study the interactive style of risk-taking behavior

The purpose of this research was to assess the consistency and stability of risk-behavior within the interactive style perspective through a betting dice test (Ribes & Sánchez, 1992). We used two different versions of the betting dice test (BDT), in which some parametric values were changed in order to verify the interactive style configuration. When BDT version 1 was used (Study 1) we found that, even though the response options had the same expected value, subjects presented a conservative strategy, and that the behavior remained stable after 2 hr. The second BDT version (Study 2) allowed us to verify two aspects of the risk-taking behavior: (a) Subjects' risk behavior remains stable after 1 yr; and (b) the assumed risk varies between the two versions of the BDT. These results are discussed within the interactive style framework.