Impact of Induced Moods, Sensation Seeking, and Emotional Contagion on Economic Decisions Under Risk.

ABSTRACT: In addition to probabilities of monetary gains and losses, personality traits, socio-economic factors, and specific contexts such as emotions and framing influence financial risk taking. Here, we investigated the effects of joyful, neutral, and sad mood states on participants' risk-taking behaviour in a simple task with safe and risky options. We also analysed the effect of framing on risk taking. In different trials, a safe option was framed in terms of either financial gains or losses. Moreover, we investigated the effects of emotional contagion and sensation-seeking personality traits on risk taking in this task. We did not observe a significant effect of induced moods on risk taking. Sad mood resulted in a slight non-significant trend of risk aversion compared to a neutral mood. Our re

SUBMITTER: Efimov K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8766662 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature