ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2017
Acute stress alters individual risk taking in a time-dependent manner and leads to anti-social risk.
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- Acute social and physical stress interact to influence social behavior: The role of social anxiety.PloS one · 2018Trial
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- Decision-making under stress: A psychological and neurobiological integrative model.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Acute stress promotes effort mobilization for safety-related goals.Communications psychology · 2024Article
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- The Mediating Effects of Affect on Associations between Impulsivity or Resilience and Internet Gaming Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbian Women Moderate Heterosexual Adults' Subjective Stress Response to Witnessing Homonegativity.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Objective Physiological Measurements but Not Subjective Reports Moderate the Effect of Hunger on Choice Behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Testosterone, Cortisol and Financial Risk-Taking.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Review
- Enhanced Risk Aversion, But Not Loss Aversion, in Unmedicated Pathological Anxiety.Biological psychiatry · 2017Article
- Stress and Decision Making: Effects on Valuation, Learning, and Risk-taking.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2017Article
- A Deletion Variant of the α2b-Adrenoceptor Modulates the Stress-Induced Shift from "Cognitive" to "Habit" Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Decision-making processes can be modulated by stress, and the time elapsed from stress induction seems to be a crucial factor in determining the direction of the effects. Although current approaches consider the first post-stress hour a uniform period, the dynamic pattern of activation of the physiological stress systems (i.e., the sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) suggests that its neurobehavioural impact might be heterogeneous. Here, we evaluate economic risk preferences on the gain domain (i.e., risk aversion) at three time points following exposure to psychosocial stress (immediately after, and 20 and 45 min from onset). Using lottery games, we examine decisions at both the individual and social levels. We find that risk aversion shows a time-dependent change across the first post-stress hour, evolving from less risk aversion shortly after stress to more risk averse behaviour at the last testing time. When risk implied an antisocial outcome to a third party, stressed individuals showed less regard for this person in their decisions. Participants' cortisol levels explained their behaviour in the risk, but not the antisocial, game. Our findings reveal differential stress effects in self- and other-regarding decision-making and highlight the multidimensional nature of the immediate aftermath of stress for cognition.
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