Emotion-induced loss aversion and striatal-amygdala coupling in low-anxious individuals.

ABSTRACT: Adapting behavior to changes in the environment is a crucial ability for survival but such adaptation varies widely across individuals. Here, we asked how humans alter their economic decision-making in response to emotional cues, and whether this is related to trait anxiety. Developing an emotional decision-making task for functional magnetic resonance imaging, in which gambling decisions were preceded by emotional and non-emotional primes, we assessed emotional influences on loss aversion, the tendency to overweigh potential monetary losses relative to gains. Our behavioral results revealed that only low-anxious individuals exhibited increased loss aversion under emotional conditions. This emotional modulation of decision-making was accompanied by a corresponding emotion-elicited increase

SUBMITTER: Charpentier CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4814785 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature