Losing control without your smartphone: Anxiety affects the dynamic choice process of impulsive decision-making and purchase.

ABSTRACT: Different interacting contexts influence the decision-making process, as revealed by the computational modeling. Through four studies, we investigated how smartphone addiction and anxiety influenced impulsive behaviors, along with the underlying psychological mechanisms and dynamic decision-making processes. In the first and second studies, we found no significant correlation between smartphone addiction and impulsive behavior. However, in the third study, we found that smartphone separation increased impulsive decision-making and purchases, and state anxiety, but not trait anxiety, mediated this effect. We explored the dynamic decision-making process using a multi-attribute drift diffusion model (DDM). The results showed that anxiety triggered by smartphone separation changed the trade-of

SUBMITTER: Gui DY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10060825 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature