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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 121, Issue 2, Pages 257-263Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.2.257
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decision making; stress; emotion; gambling; prefrontal cortex
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- NINDS NIH HHS [P01 NS19632] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent research has highlighted the fact that emotion that is intrinsic to a task benefits decision making. The authors tested the converse hypothesis, that unrelated emotion disrupts decision making. Participants played the Iowa Gambling Task, during which only experimental participants anticipated giving a public speech (A. Bechara, D. Tranel, & H. Damasio, 2000). Experimental participants who were anticipating the speech learned the contingencies of the choices more slowly, and there was a gender interaction later in the game, with stressed female participants having more explicit knowledge and more advantageous performance and stressed male participants having poorer explicit knowledge and less advantageous performance. Effects of anticipatory stress on decision making are complex and depend on both the nature of the task and the individual.
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