Am I Winning or Losing? Probing the Appraisal of Partial Wins via Response Vigor.

ABSTRACT: Attempts to obtain rewards are not always successful. Despite investing much time, effort, or money, sometimes individuals may not obtain any reward. Other times they may obtain some reward, but the obtained reward may be smaller than their initial investment, such as partial wins in gambling. It remains unclear how such ambiguous outcomes are appraised. To address this question, we systematically varied the payoffs for different outcomes in a computerized scratch card task across three experiments. To test outcome appraisal, we used response vigor as a novel proxy. In the scratch card task, participants turned three cards one by one. Depending on the turned cards, they either received an amount that was higher than the wager (win), an amount lower than the wager (partial win), or nothing

SUBMITTER: Chen Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10904435 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature