ArticleNeurobiology of stress2016
Acute stress does not affect risky monetary decision-making.
Article in Neurobiology of stress, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A multinational analysis of how emotions relate to economic decisions regarding time or risk.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Combined Effects of Glucocorticoid and Noradrenergic Activity on Loss Aversion.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2018Trial
- Examining relationships between delay and probability discounting and perceived stress in a high-income online sample.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Negative news exposure does not affect risk or ambiguity aversion.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Willingness to wait covaries with endogenous variation in cortisol.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The effects of threat on complex decision-making: evidence from a virtual environment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Acute stress promotes effort mobilization for safety-related goals.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Multiple timescales of temporal context in risky choice: Behavioral identification and relationships to physiological arousal.PloS one · 2024Article
- Non-instrumental information seeking is resistant to acute stress.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The shadowing effect of initial expectation on learning asymmetry.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- The neural dynamics of loss aversion.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Choosing for others changes dissociable computational mechanisms underpinning risky decision-making.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics: Recent progress and ongoing challenges.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2022Review
- Neither Threat of Shock nor Acute Psychosocial Stress Affects Ambiguity Attitudes.Affective science · 2022Article
- Risky Decision Making Under Stressful Conditions: Men and Women With Smaller Cortisol Elevations Make Riskier Social and Economic Decisions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Computational and Motivational Mechanisms of Human Social Decision Making Involving Close Others.Journal of experimental social psychology · 2021Article
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- Quantifying the immediate computational effects of preceding outcomes on subsequent risky choices.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Repetitive negative thinking following exposure to a natural stressor prospectively predicts altered stress responding and decision-making in the laboratory.Behaviour research and therapy · 2020Article
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Abstract
The ubiquitous and intense nature of stress responses necessitate that we understand how they affect decision-making. Despite a number of studies examining risky decision-making under stress, it is as yet unclear whether and in what way stress alters the underlying processes that shape our choices. This is in part because previous studies have not separated and quantified dissociable valuation and decision-making processes that can affect choices of risky options, including risk attitudes, loss aversion, and choice consistency, among others. Here, in a large, fully-crossed two-day within-subjects design, we examined how acute stress alters risky decision-making. On each day, 120 participants completed either the cold pressor test or a control manipulation with equal probability, followed by a risky decision-making task. Stress responses were assessed with salivary cortisol. We fit an econometric model to choices that dissociated risk attitudes, loss aversion, and choice consistency using hierarchical Bayesian techniques to both pool data and allow heterogeneity in decision-making. Acute stress was found to have no effect on risk attitudes, loss aversion, or choice consistency, though participants did become more loss averse and more consistent on the second day relative to the first. In the context of an inconsistent previous literature on risk and acute stress, our findings provide strong and specific evidence that acute stress does not affect risk attitudes, loss aversion, or consistency in risky monetary decision-making.
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