ArticlePloS one2015
Trait Anxiety Has Effect on Decision Making under Ambiguity but Not Decision Making under Risk.
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- Recollecting Cross-Cultural Evidences: Are Decision Makers Really Foresighted in Iowa Gambling Task?Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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- Goal-Conflict EEG Theta and Biased Economic Decisions: A Role for a Second Negative Motivation System.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Selective impairment of decision making under ambiguity in alexithymia.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
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- Does Gender Matter in the Relationship between Anxiety and Decision-Making?Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Previous studies have reported that trait anxiety (TA) affects decision making. However, results remain largely inconsistent across studies. The aim of the current study was to further address the interaction between TA and decision making. 304 subjects without depression from a sample consisting of 642 participants were grouped into high TA (HTA), medium TA (MTA) and low TA (LTA) groups based on their TA scores from State Trait Anxiety Inventory. All subjects were assessed with the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) that measures decision making under ambiguity and the Game of Dice Task (GDT) that measures decision making under risk. While the HTA and LTA groups performed worse on the IGT compared to the MTA group, performances on the GDT between the three groups did not differ. Furthermore, the LTA and HTA groups showed different individual deck level preferences in the IGT: the former showed a preference for deck B indicating that these subjects focused more on the magnitude of rewards, and the latter showed a preference for deck A indicating significant decision making impairment. Our findings suggest that trait anxiety has effect on decision making under ambiguity but not decision making under risk and different levels of trait anxiety related differently to individual deck level preferences in the IGT.
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