The impact of stress on financial decision-making varies as a function of depression and anxiety symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Stress can precipitate the onset of mood and anxiety disorders. This may occur, at least in part, via a modulatory effect of stress on decision-making. Some individuals are, however, more resilient to the effects of stress than others. The mechanisms underlying such vulnerability differences are nevertheless unknown. In this study we attempted to begin quantifying individual differences in vulnerability by exploring the effect of experimentally induced stress on decision-making. The threat of unpredictable shock was used to induce stress in healthy volunteers (N = 47) using a within-subjects, within-session design, and its impact on a financial decision-making task (the Iowa Gambling Task) was assessed alongside anxious and depressive symptomatology. As expected, participants learned to se

SUBMITTER: Robinson OJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4330902 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature