Acute stress does not affect risky monetary decision-making.

ABSTRACT: The ubiquitous and intense nature of stress responses necessitate that we understand how they affect decision-making. Despite a number of studies examining risky decision-making under stress, it is as yet unclear whether and in what way stress alters the underlying processes that shape our choices. This is in part because previous studies have not separated and quantified dissociable valuation and decision-making processes that can affect choices of risky options, including risk attitudes, loss aversion, and choice consistency, among others. Here, in a large, fully-crossed two-day within-subjects design, we examined how acute stress alters risky decision-making. On each day, 120 participants completed either the cold pressor test or a control manipulation with equal probability, followed b

SUBMITTER: Sokol-Hessner P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5145911 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature