ArticleScientific reports2016
Anxiety promotes memory for mood-congruent faces but does not alter loss aversion.
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- The influence of fear on risk taking: a meta-analysis.Cognition & emotion · 2020Pooled it
- Cognitive mechanisms underlying decision making involving risk of explicit punishment in male and female rats.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Association of Loss Aversion, Personality Traits, Depressive, Anxious, and Suicidal Symptoms: Systematic Review.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2020Article
- Translating a rodent measure of negative bias into humans: the impact of induced anxiety and unmedicated mood and anxiety disorders.Psychological medicine · 2020Article
- Modeling anxiety in healthy humans: a key intermediate bridge between basic and clinical sciences.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Review
- The neural circuitry of affect-induced distortions of trust.Science advances · 2019Article
- Impulsivity influences betting under stress in laboratory gambling.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Enhanced Risk Aversion, But Not Loss Aversion, in Unmedicated Pathological Anxiety.Biological psychiatry · 2017Article
- An unpleasant emotional state reduces working memory capacity: electrophysiological evidence.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Article
- Increased Loss Aversion in Unmedicated Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2017Article
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Abstract
Pathological anxiety is associated with disrupted cognitive processing, including working memory and decision-making. In healthy individuals, experimentally-induced state anxiety or high trait anxiety often results in the deployment of adaptive harm-avoidant behaviours. However, how these processes affect cognition is largely unknown. To investigate this question, we implemented a translational within-subjects anxiety induction, threat of shock, in healthy participants reporting a wide range of trait anxiety scores. Participants completed a gambling task, embedded within an emotional working memory task, with some blocks under unpredictable threat and others safe from shock. Relative to the safe condition, threat of shock improved recall of threat-congruent (fearful) face location, especially in highly trait anxious participants. This suggests that threat boosts working memory for mood-congruent stimuli in vulnerable individuals, mirroring memory biases in clinical anxiety. By contrast, Bayesian analysis indicated that gambling decisions were better explained by models that did not include threat or treat anxiety, suggesting that: (i) higher-level executive functions are robust to these anxiety manipulations; and (ii) decreased risk-taking may be specific to pathological anxiety. These findings provide insight into the complex interactions between trait anxiety, acute state anxiety and cognition, and may help understand the cognitive mechanisms underlying adaptive anxiety.
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