The dissolution of temporal distance increases risk-taking: experimental evidence.

ABSTRACT: Earlier research shows that delaying the realization of a lottery (temporal distance) increases risk tolerance. Presumably, this happens because temporal distance protects one from encountering the negative emotions produced when facing risk. However, no study has tested whether people that made a choice in the presence of temporal distance would actually change their decision later on (in the absence of temporal distance), towards the safer choice. To test this, 137 participants were subject to actual temporal distance, consisting of a four-week waiting period. To explore how each participant behaved "in the heat of the moment" (in the absence of temporal distance), we assessed their electrodermal activity and analysed self-description measures of susceptibility to affect. Participants ha

SUBMITTER: Muda R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224535 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature