COVID-19 stressor reduces risk taking: the role of trait interoception.

ABSTRACT: The Framing Effect (FE) demonstrated that the way two alternatives are displayed affects people's inclination to make a specific choice, showing a risk aversion when alternatives are displayed on positive frames and risk seeking in negative frames. Risk seeking in negative frames is closely linked to loss aversion. Moreover, classical research and the salience-of-losses hypothesis argues that stress may enhance the FE and loss aversion. Recent studies also suggest that the trait interoception and alexithymia could interact and moderate the framing susceptibility. However, experimental paradigms on stress could ignore variables such as threat perception. In this sense, COVID-19 pandemic has become a powerful real-life stressor in many countries. We aimed to study how real-life stressors inf

SUBMITTER: Belhouk-Herrero MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10044126 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature